{"id":1164377,"date":"2023-07-24T17:13:37","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T21:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1164377"},"modified":"2023-07-24T17:13:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T21:13:37","slug":"after-bopping-an-asteroid-3-years-ago-nasa-will-finally-see-the-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1164377","title":{"rendered":"After bopping an asteroid 3 years ago, NASA will finally see the results"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6768-800x600-1.jpg\" alt=\"A look inside the clean room where OSIRIS-REx's samples will be stored.\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6768-scaled.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1920\" data-width=\"2560\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> A look inside the clean room where OSIRIS-REx&#8217;s samples will be stored. (credit: NASA)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Christmas Day for scientists who study asteroids is coming in just two months when a small spacecraft carrying material from a distant rubble pile will land in a Utah desert.<\/p>\n<p>The return of the OSIRIS-REx sample container on September 24 will cap the primary mission to capture material from an asteroid\u2014in this case, the carbonaceous near-Earth asteroid Bennu\u2014and return some of its pebbles and dust to Earth.<\/p>\n<p>It has been a long time coming. This mission launched seven years ago and has been in the planning and development phase for over a decade. To say the scientists who have fought for and executed this mission are anxious and excited is an understatement. But there is an additional frisson with OSIRIS-REx, as scientists are not entirely sure what they&#8217;ve been able to pull away from the asteroid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1956175#p3\">Read 10 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1956175&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1956175\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">After bopping an asteroid 3 years ago, NASA will finally see the results<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ A look inside the clean room where OSIRIS-REx&#8217;s samples will be stored. (credit: NASA) Christmas Day for scientists who study asteroids is coming in just two months when a small spacecraft carrying material from a distant rubble pile &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1164377\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1164378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1164377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1164377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1164378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1164377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1164377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1164377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}