1/2: #HOTELMARS: The risk and reward of the JAXA and NASA missions to Ryugu (2014-202) and Bennu (2015-2023) & What is to be done? Harold Connolly, Rohan University.
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 25 April 2024
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1/2: #HOTELMARS: The risk and reward of the JAXA and NASA missions to Ryugu (2014-202) and Bennu (2015-2023) & What is to be done? Harold Connolly, Rohan University.
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island? |
| 0:04.0 | Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the |
| 0:09.1 | tropics. |
| 0:10.1 | But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise, |
| 0:18.0 | the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder. Wish you were here. Follow the price of Paradise Now wherever |
| 0:26.7 | you listen to podcasts. This is a |
| 0:46.3 | is CBS, I on the world, Hotel Mars, episode N. I'm John Bachelor, David Livingston, Dr Space of the space show is here and we're going asteroid hunting in reflection with our good colleague Harold Connolly who is the chair of the Rowan University's |
| 0:55.2 | Department of Geology, but for the vision that he offers us, I remind everyone, Harold's |
| 1:01.8 | been with this several times before very generously. |
| 1:04.8 | He is the co-investigator of Hayabusa 2, that's the Ryuga asteroid of 2020 returned to Earth, |
| 1:11.9 | and the mission sample scientist for Osiris Rex that's Benu |
| 1:17.7 | returned to us in the last year or two. |
| 1:21.3 | Both these asteroids are teaching everything about the asteroid origins |
| 1:27.2 | and about our solar system. So we begin with news that is fresh about Hiabusa 2 and Riaugu. |
| 1:37.0 | Japan's Hiabusa 2 spacecraft has been hanging around the asteroid known as Riaugu |
| 1:41.6 | for several months now it reads. However we come up to date |
| 1:45.1 | and say that there's questions about where Ryuga comes from. You take Kaibusa there, you get a sample, you come back. |
| 1:54.6 | At the time, there were questions about its origins. |
| 1:57.2 | So, Professor, a very good evening to you. |
| 2:00.1 | The origins of Ryugou. the origins of Osiris Rex, are those profound details? Do they also |
| 2:06.7 | teach you about the asteroid belt? Good evening to you. Good evening to both of you. Thank you very much |
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