Event ID: | 10838 |
Contact Name: | Edelman Planetarium |
Contact Email: | planetarium@rowan.edu |
Contact Phone: | 856-256-4389 |
Organization: | Edelman Planetarium |
Event Web Site: | http://www.rowan.edu/planetarium |
Dates: | 5th October 2016 to 5th October 2016 |
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Type: | Public |
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Country: | United States |
State/Province: | New Jersey |
City: | Glassboro |
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Location: | Edelman Planetarium at Rowan University |
Event Name: | OSIRIS-REx Mission Update |
Event Description: | Rowan Geology Department Chair and OSIRIS-REx Mission Sample Scientist, Harold Connolly, gives an update on the OSIRIS-REx mission. October 5th, 7:00 pm. On September 8, 2016, an Atlas 5 rocket departed Cape Canaveral bearing the OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer) spacecraft, the first U.S. mission to a near-Earth asteroid (Bennu) to collect a sample for return to Earth in 2023. OSIRIS-REx will help unlock secrets of the history of our solar system, and shed light on how life may have come to be on our planet. In doing so, a new chapter in the exploration of the solar system will begin. After arriving at asteroid Bennu, OSIRIS-REx will undertake a program of observations to select a site suitable for retrieving a sample that will be returned to the Earth -- the largest amount of extra-terrestrial material returned to the Earth since the end of the Apollo lunar missions. Free and open to the public. |
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