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Michele Bannister
@astrokiwi.bsky.social
Planetary astronomer @UCNZ: envisioning worlds from here and elsewhere, in a dark & glorious sky. Rutherford Discovery Fellow. Asteroid (10463). Pākehā; she
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A good long discussion of Orex's LPSC state of Benny analysis
First results from OSIRIS-REx asteroid-return mission show that Bennu might be a hunk of planet that was wet, possibly tectonically active, full of organic material, and bathed in light from a star or stars that were destroyed before our solar system existed and may have seeded all of us 🧪🔭
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Is Already Rewriting Solar System History
Scientists have scarcely begun studying pristine material from asteroid Bennu brought back to Earth by the OSIRIS-REx mission, but have already found several surprises
I wonder how much discussion of Bennu will be autocorrected to Benny? Perhaps we can release a Bennu and the Jets cover song to meet this head on?
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Michele Bannister
@astrokiwi.bsky.social
Planetary astronomer @UCNZ: envisioning worlds from here and elsewhere, in a dark & glorious sky. Rutherford Discovery Fellow. Asteroid (10463). Pākehā; she
2.6k followers895 following1.2k posts