[Rockhounds] The Asteroid Bennu

[Dora Smith]

You mean they spent a WHOLE SPACE MISSION to land on an ASTEROID just to 
find out how much rock it is made of vs ice?

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do you KNOW how many people we could have fed and sheltered with that 
money.   Geez!

Nothing better to do.  We'd better have a new President soon!

Yours,

Dora Smith

On 9/14/20 6:29 PM, Jim Mills wrote:
> 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
>
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