This is CBSI on the world. Hotel Mars, episode N. I'm John Batchel. David Livingston. Dr. Space of the

space show is here as my colleague and co-host, and we're delighted to welcome again to the show,

a man who has helped us a great deal understand the solar system we're happily living in.

Harold Connolly, he is the mission sample scientist for Osiris Rex, which is now designated

into a new mission, headed to Pophis, I believe.

However, meantime, the sample return from asteroid Benu is a joy to speak of because in it it contains not just mysteries but possibilities of how our planet Earth came together once upon a time.

Harold, it's a treat to talk.

Thank you very much.

However, I divert our attention before we

discuss what's inside Benu to what's outside Benu, which is now a concern of Benu in 157 years

striking Earth, meaning that we're talking about a near-Earth object, any O, that concerns everyone eventually,

NASA in particular. However, I do not recall Benu being given this level of concern the last

time we talked. This is a new thing that they calculated Benu's orbit hitting Earth in 157 years.

Maybe, maybe, maybe.

Is this new, Harold?

Good evening to you.

Good evening to you.

Thanks once again for having me on.

I really enjoy being with both of you.

So I'm not exactly short of the change here because the current status is that it's a one in 2700% chance that Benu

will collide with Earth in 2182, I think is the date. So that still hasn't changed in its

rigor. So I think right now we've continued to refine what we know about Bendu,

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