Last Week, Mars. This week, An Asteroid Called Bennu.

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

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🗓️ 5 December 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

The InSight lander has only just arrived on Mars. Now, OSIRIS REx has reached asteroid Bennu after traveling through deep space for a year and a half. We’ll talk with the Planetary Society’s Jason Davis about this mission that will bring a sample of Bennu back to Earth after it has learned all it can over the next 19 months. We’ll also hear from the young student who gave the asteroid its name. Then we’ll return to the Red Planet for a conversation with the leader of the InSight mission, Bruce Banerdt. We’ve got very special prizes for this week’s What’s Up space trivia contest. Learn more at: http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2018/1205-2018-osiris-rex-bruce-banerdt-insight-pi.htmlLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Last week it was Mars. Now we've arrived at an asteroid. That's this week on
0:05.8	planetary radio. Welcome, I'm at Kaplan, of the Planetary Society, with more of the humid
0:15.8	adventure across our solar system and beyond. You heard the excitement
0:20.0	when Insight landed on the red planet.
0:22.6	Here's the compressed Osiris Rex arrival
0:25.7	at asteroid Benu.
0:28.8	Stand by for a Benu arrival.
0:33.0	So you can see here we have the Doppler residual so we know the brightness occurring
0:38.0	because I'm seeing the change in velocity from the spacecraft.
0:41.0	It's gotten very quiet in here.
0:42.0	Everyone's whispering.
0:47.2	We have arrived. Thank you. You may have noticed we were doing a bit of an unusual high five there that's called
1:09.9	the tag five because that's reminiscent of the tag-sam arm that's eventually
1:13.6	going to retrieve a sample. So we're just going to sort of watch people enjoy
1:17.6	themselves. We have arrived at the asteroid Bennu. The spacecraft has successfully
1:22.0	done the engine burn to put us into proximity operations at this asteroid.
1:25.0	That's Osiris Rex, Communication System Engineer Harvey Serna, talking with Michelle Thaler of the Goddard Space
1:32.1	Flight Center, a science communicator, an astronomer there,
1:34.9	who was the host of the live coverage of the Osiris Rex arrival asteroid Benu.
1:42.0	Somebody else who was part of the celebration on Monday, December 3rd,
1:47.0	was our own Jason Davis, digital editor for the Planetary Society who is with me now.
1:52.0	Hi Jason.
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