2023-09-22 11:24:27
NASA suspense Osiris-Rex ship along with samples of rock dust from the asteroid Bennu Close to returning to Earth this weekend. After being sent to carry out an important mission since 2018 on 22 September 2023, foreign news agencies reported. Scientists at the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are in high spirits with excitement. Osiris-Rex with rock samples from the asteroid Bennu. It’s almost there. It is scheduled to reenter Earth’s atmosphere this coming Sunday, September 24, local time. After NASA sent the Osiris-Rex spacecraft Travel to Asteroid Bennu Which is 330 million kilometers away from Earth since 2018 to carry out a mission to bring back rock samples, according to reports that the vehicle or Osiris-Rex capsule Will plunge into the Earth’s atmosphere at a speed 15 times faster than a rifle bullet, but the craft has a heat shield. and the Osiris-Rex will softly descend to Earth via parachute in the desert of western Utah. Drawing of NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft collecting rock dust samples on the asteroid Bennuya. Returning with astronomical treasures A sample of rock or dust from the asteroid Bennu weighs 250 grams. NASA scientists will be able to analyze these rock samples further. and believes that it may help solve the mystery of the origin of life on Earth Asteroid Bennu It is considered one of the most dangerous asteroids to Earth. There is a chance that it will crash into Earth in regarding 100 years. Professor Dante Loretta, NASA’s principal investigator for this mission, said that once we have obtained a rock sample, weighing 250 grams, of asteroid Bennu. It will study the minerals that remain in these rock samples that predate our planet. Perhaps samples of these rocks may exist. Since before our solar system was born. Asteroid Bennu It is one of the most dangerous asteroids in the solar system and has a chance of 1 in 2,700 that it will hit the Earth on September 25, 2135, or the year 2678, or 112 years ahead of the planet. Asteroid Bennu is 500 meters wide, or the size of five football fields, and weighs 79,000 kilograms. Scientists estimate that if asteroid Bennu actually hits Earth, it will produce 1,200 megatons of energy, or more energy than an explosion. Nuclear in the United States Used to attack Hiroshima in World War II 80,000 times.
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