[meteorite-list] meteorite-related: Today! OSIRIS-REx: Opportunity to submit questions for mission experts

From: Dolores Hill <dhill_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 12:26:23 -0700
Message-ID: <9329f192-de47-de3e-9148-a15d5efc52d7_at_lpl.arizona.edu>

Greetings meteorite friends,

Please excuse the short notice for a meteorite-related opportunity to
submit questions to OSIRIS-REx mission experts! (NOW) See below.


The info and the link to the page on the mission website are below.
Facebook users can also post your questions as comments on this post:
https://www.facebook.com/OSIRISREx/photos/a.188106444635520/1871961876249960/


Mission Website Link:
https://www.asteroidmission.org/bennu-twitter-chat-agu-2018/
<https://www.asteroidmission.org/bennu-twitter-chat-agu-2018/>

Last week ? after a two-year, two-billion-kilometer journey ? NASA?s
OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at its destination
<https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasas-osiris-rex-spacecraft-arrives-at-asteroid-bennu>:
an ancient near-Earth asteroid called Bennu. OSIRIS-REx is the first
spacecraft to visit Bennu and the first U.S. mission to return a sample
from an asteroid to Earth. After the sample is delivered to Earth in
2023, generations of scientists will study it to help unlock the
mysteries of the early Solar System.

Yesterday, initial science results
<https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-newly-arrived-osiris-rex-spacecraft-already-discovers-water-on-asteroid>
from the spacecraft?s close-range studies of Bennu ? including the
detection of water locked in the clay minerals on the asteroid ? were
released at the AGU fall meeting in Washington, DC. *Today* (*Tuesday,
Dec. 11) from 3-4 pm ET (1-2 pm MT)*, experts from the OSIRIS-REx team
will answer questions on Twitter about the mission and the discoveries
made about Bennu so far. *Use the hashtag #BennuChat on Twitter to
submit your questions.*

*What:* Experts from the OSIRIS-REx mission will answer questions about
asteroid Bennu and what?s next for OSIRIS-REx
*When:* Tue. Dec. 11, 2018 3-4 pm ET (1-2 pm MT)
*Where:* Use the hashtag #BennuChat on Twitter; Facebook users can also
post questions as comments on this post:
https://www.facebook.com/OSIRISREx/photos/a.188106444635520/1871961876249960/
*Who:* Mission experts including:

  * Dante Lauretta <https://osirisrex.arizona.edu/our-team> ? OSIRIS-REx
    Principal Investigator and Professor, University of Arizona Lunar
    and Planetary Lab
  * Jason Dworkin
    <https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/people/290/jason-dworkin/> ?
    OSIRIS-REx Project Scientist, NASA?s Goddard Space Flight Center
  * Vicky Hamilton
    <http://www.boulder.swri.edu/%7Ehamilton/VEH/Home.html> ? OSIRIS-REx
    Lead Spectral Scientist and OTES Deputy Instrument Scientist,
    Southwest Research Institute
  * Carl Hergenrother
    <https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/people/288/carl-hergenrother/> ?
    OSIRIS-REx Astronomy Lead, University of Arizona
  * Keara Burke
    <https://uanews.arizona.edu/story/ua-undergrad-works-id-osirisrex-touchdown-site>
    ? OSIRIS-REx Image Processing Intern and Undergraduate Student,
    University of Arizona


Best regards,
Dolores Hill

-- 
Dolores H. Hill
Sr. Research Specialist
Lunar & Planetary Laboratory
Kuiper Space Sciences Bldg. #92
The University of Arizona
1629 E. University Blvd.
Tucson, AZ 85721
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/
OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission Communication & Public Engagement Team
Lead OSIRIS-REx Ambassadors program
Co-lead OSIRIS-REx Target Asteroids! citizen science program
Co-coordinator Target NEOs! observing program of the Astronomical League
Association of Lunar & Planetary Observers - Meteorite Section
http://osiris-rex.lpl.arizona.edu/
http://osiris-rex.lpl.arizona.edu/?q=target_asteroids
http://www.astroleague.org/files/u3/NEO_HomePage.pdf
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