Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.   I’m Fred Fishkin.    Now comes the fun part.    NASA’s OSIRIS ReX mission to bring a sample of rocks back to earth from the asteroid Bennu was an amazing success.   And now the scientists will get a look at what was found.  NASA’s deputy director of the solar system exploration division is Jamie Elsila Cook…

“So asteroids are materials that were formed right when the solar system formed four and a half billion years ago and so studying them lets us understand the origins of the solar system and also, potentially, the origins of life on earth.    So we’re studying both what the asteroid is made of and also the chemical composition of it.”

The research that begins now…really a global effort…will continue for years.   And the mission of the OSIRIS spacecraft that carried and sent the capsule back to earth…continues with a trip to another near Earth asteroid.

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