[Rockhounds] The Asteroid Bennu

[Jim Mills]

With all of those interesting papers on Planetary Geology that Paul has 
posted lately, I wanted to make sure that everybody had seen the NASA 
news release about the planned October landing on the very small 
asteroid Bennu and then picking up a chunk and bringing it back to 
earth.  What an interesting way to collect meteorites!!  They have 
already done two dress rehearsals and gotten to within 40 meters of the 
surface.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7743

Be sure to click on the hot link in the article that says repeatedly 
launched into space and then watch the video animation of particles 
ejected along with their trajectory.  Really interesting science.

Jim Mills