Secrets of Asteroid Bennu with Harold Connolly Jr.

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🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Could the ingredients for life have arrived on asteroids? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice unpack what the sample collected from asteroid Bennu is teaching us about the origins of life itself with Harold Connolly, geologist and mission scientist for OSIRIS-REx.

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0:00.0	Chuck, we're long overdue for devoting a show to asteroid Ben New.
0:04.4	Not only have you been there, it has Earth in its sights as a near-Earth asteroid that might hit us in 200 years.
0:11.3	As a matter of fact, going to talk to Harold Connolly, Jr.
0:13.9	And if you want to find out exactly when the Earth is going to be destroyed, just stay tuned.
0:19.0	Down to the hour.
0:20.4	Coming up on StarTalk.
0:24.2	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:26.8	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:32.9	StarTalk begins right now.
0:40.6	This is StarTalk.
0:42.7	Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:45.6	Chuck Nice is with me, in the house.
0:47.5	Chuck, how you doing, ma'am?
0:48.4	I'm good.
0:49.0	I'm in my house.
0:50.3	You're all in the house remotely.
0:54.1	How are you doing, man?
0:55.5	I am doing great.
0:56.5	You know what we're going to do today?
0:57.8	Something I think we're long, should have done long ago.
1:02.0	We're going to take a look at the ingredients for life as they exist in the rest of the universe
1:10.0	and how some of those ingredients may have influenced
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