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Looking Skyward: Two missions enhance knowledge of asteroids

CAI | By John Basile
Published November 2, 2023 at 2:57 PM EDT
An artist's conception of NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collecting a sample from the asteroid Bennu.
NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona
An artist's conception of NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collecting a sample from the asteroid Bennu.

In this installment of Looking Skyward, CAI's John Basile talks with Dr. Regina Jorgenson of the Maria Mitchell Observatory on Nantucket about two recent missions to learn more abut asteroids.

Learn more:

Maria Mitchell Observatory
https://www.mariamitchell.org/loines-observatory

NASA
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasas-bennu-asteroid-sample-contains-carbon-water/
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John Basile
Editor and reporter for CAI and host of Sittin' In CAI's series on musicians and the local music scene.
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