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NASA organizes a scientific chat during the next two extraordinary encounters
Press release
From: NASA headquarters
Posted: Monday, November 5, 2018
NASA will hold a live science discussion at 2 pm EST of Wednesday, November 7 to discuss the upcoming meetings of two of the planetary missions of the agency – the arrival of origins, spectral interpretation, resource identification, The Safety-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) at the Asteroid Bennu on December 3 and the historical overview of the MU69 2014 Kuiper Belt object by New Horizons on January 1, 2019 .
Topics will include the essential clues these objects hold for the formation of the solar system, complementary mission science goals, and more.
The event will be broadcast on Facebook live, NASA Television, Ustream, YouTube
Participants include:
- Hal Weaver, New Horizons Project Scientist, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
- Melissa Morris, OSIRIS-REx Assistant Scientist, NASA Headquarters
Media may ask questions before and during the event by sending an email to JoAnna Wendel at [email protected].
The OSIRIS-REx space shuttle will initiate a complex dance with Bennu, map it out and study it for sample collection in July 2020. OSIRIS-REx will send the sample to Earth in September 2023.
New Horizons will fly over its target, nicknamed Ultima Thule, about four billion kilometers from Earth – the most distant space-flight in history. This meeting complements the discoveries still made by the mission's exploration of the Pluto system in July 2015. However, this time, the spacecraft will come three times closer to Ultima than to Pluto.
For more information on NASA's New Horizons mission, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/
For more information on NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/osiris-rex
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