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The discovery of uracil in the samples from Ryugu lends strength to current theories regarding the source of nucleobases in the early Earth, the OSIRIS-REx mission by NASA will be returning samples from asteroid Bennu this year, and a comparative study of the composition of these asteroids will provide further data to build on these theories.

– Yasuhiro Oba

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is a fantastic result which highlights the capabilities of MIRI to serendipitously detect a previously undetectable size of asteroid in the main belt, repeats of these observations are in the process of being scheduled, and we are fully expecting new asteroid interlopers in those images!

– Bryan Holler

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Scout quickly ruled out 2023 BU as an impactor, but despite the very few observations, it was nonetheless able to predict that the asteroid would make an extraordinarily close approach with Earth, in fact, this is one of the closest approaches by a known near-Earth object ever recorded.

– Davide Farnocchia

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Sometimes we describe it as running a golf cart into a great pyramid or something like that, but for Dimorphos, this really is about asteroid deflection, not disruption.

– Nancy Chabot

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Sometimes we describe it as running a golf cart into a great pyramid or something like that, but for Dimorphos, this really is about asteroid deflection, not disruption. This isn't going to blow up the asteroid ; it isn't going to put it into lots of pieces.

– Nancy Chabot

Found on CNN
1 year ago

By the time we fired our thrusters to leave the surface we were still plunging into the asteroid.

– Ron Ballouz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

But two of those were wildly different in composition. You had spikes in chromium and nickel and some other elements that are only common in meteoritic material and those fragments based on our preliminary analysis... are almost certainly of cosmic origin. this example of what might be a little tiny fragment, maybe micrograms, of the colliding asteroid -- the fact that a record of that is preserved, would be mind-blowing.

– Robert DePalma

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Some experts have said' well, it might be the day after or a month before... but I prefer the simplest explanation, which is that it really does document the day the asteroid hit in Mexico.

– Michael Benton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As the mission team member, I felt so happy to handle and analyze the first C-type asteroid samples with my hands, this was( and still is !) an incredible experience.

– Toru Yada

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The key to planetary defense is finding them well before they are an impact threat, the principle with all of them is just to change the orbital speed of the asteroid just a small amount. Changing that speed of the asteroid in its orbit changes its orbit so in the future, it won't be in the same place it was going to be to impact the Earth.

– Lindley Johnson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This isn't going to destroy the asteroid, it's just going to give it a small nudge and deflect its path around the larger asteroid.

– Nancy Chabot

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Astronomers will be able to compare observations from Earth-based telescopes before and after DART's kinetic impact to determine how much the orbital period of Dimorphos changed, that's the key measurement that will tell us how the asteroid responded to our deflection effort.

– Tom Statler

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Kleopatra is truly a unique body in our Solar System, science makes a lot of progress thanks to the study of weird outliers. I think Kleopatra is one of those and understanding this complex, multiple asteroid system can help us learn more about our Solar System.

– Franck Marchis

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The OSIRIS-REx data give us so much more precise information, we can test the limits of our models and calculate the future trajectory of Bennu to a very high degree of certainty through 2135, we've never modeled an asteroid's trajectory to this precision before.

– Davide Farnocchia

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Combining the observations of the small asteroid in space with information gleaned from the meteorites shows it likely came from Vesta, second largest asteroid in our Solar System and target of NASA's DAWN mission, billions of years ago, two giant impacts on Vesta created a family of larger, more dangerous asteroids. The newly recovered meteorites gave us a clue on when those impacts might have happened.

– Peter Jenniskens

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I could hardly believe my eyes when I came upon a little object that appeared to be moving across images taken by SkyMapper, these last images before the asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere were SkyMapper's biggest contribution. They helped to pinpoint both the search area for the meteorite fragments on Earth and the meteor's origin in space.

– Christopher Onken

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Asteroid Bennu is rough and rocky, so if you look at it from a different angle or capture it at a time when the sun is not directly overhead, that dramatically changes what the surface looks like, these images were deliberately taken close to noon, with the Sun shining straight down, when there's not as many shadows.

– Dathon Golish

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The asteroid will be brightest while it moves through southern skies, amateur astronomers in the southern hemisphere and at low northern latitudes should be able to see this asteroid using moderate size telescopes with apertures of at least 8 inches in the nights leading up to closest approach, but they will probably need star charts to find it.

– Paul Chodas

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We know the orbital path of 2001 FO32 around the Sun very accurately, since it was discovered 20 years ago and has been tracked ever since, there is no chance the asteroid will get any closer to Earth than 1.25 million miles.

– Paul Chodas

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

After over a decade of planning, the team is overjoyed at the success of today's sampling attempt, even though we have some work ahead of us to determine the outcome of the event -- the successful contact, the TAGSAM gas firing, and back-away from Asteroid Bennu are major accomplishments for the team. I look forward to analyzing the data to determine the mass of sample collected.

– Dante Lauretta

Found on CNN
3 years ago

In a month or so we will get an indication of whether or not 2020 SO really is a rocket body, since we should start being able to detect the effect of sunlight pressure has on the motion of this object : if it really is a rocket body, it will be much less dense than an asteroid and the slight pressure due to sunlight will produce enough change in its motion that we should be able to detect it in the tracking data.

– Paul Chodas

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I suspect this newly discovered object 2020 SO to be an old rocket booster because it is following an orbit about the Sun that is extremely similar to Earth's, nearly circular, in the same plane, and only slightly farther away the Sun at its farthest point, that's precisely the kind of orbit that a rocket stage separated from a lunar mission would follow, once it passes by the Moon and escapes into orbit about the Sun. It's unlikely that an asteroid could have evolved into an orbit like this, but not impossible.

– Paul Chodas

Found on CNN
3 years ago

These small pieces are ejected but because they follow each other, their mutual attraction is high enough to make them reaccumulate and form a family of aggregate asteroids after a few hours, this is how asteroid families form in the belt.

– Patrick Michel

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The asteroid strike unleashed an incredible amount of climate-changing gases into the atmosphere, triggering a chain of events that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs. This was likely worsened by the fact that it struck at one of the deadliest possible angles.

– Gareth Collins

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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