![]() ![]() He co-authored the book Bang!! A History of the Universe with Brian May and astronomers Patrick Moore and Hannah Wakeford. ![]() He also invites the public to participate in scientific research via the citizen science platform. ![]() His own research includes studying interstellar asteroids and understanding galaxies. Professor Chris Lintott is a Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford and presenter of the BBC’s long-running Sky at Night programme. On, the spacecraft finally embarked on its return voyage to Earth, with the sample return expected to happen in late 2023. The spacecraft rendezvoused with Bennu in 2018 and successfully obtained a sample in October 2020. The spacecraft launched in September 2016 and began its journey to Bennu - a carbon-rich, near-Earth asteroid. He is the leader of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission and maintains an active research program in Cosmochemistry and Meteoritics. OSIRIS-REx is the US' premier mission to visit one of the most potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroids, survey it to assess its impact hazard and resource potential, understand its physical and chemical properties and return a sample of this body to Earth for detailed scientific analysis. He is an expert in near-Earth asteroid formation and evolution. Professor Dante Lauretta is a Regents Professor of Planetary Science and Cosmochemistry at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and the Principal Investigator on OSIRIS-Rex. If all that wasn’t enough, we’ve also got interactive surprises instore, so don’t miss out as we kick off our Dig Deeper talk series with this out-of-this-world experience. Copies signed by the authors will be available to buy at the talk. It is published by the London Stereoscopic Company. Their analysis has the potential to unlock the secrets of how planets are formed and how life as we know it began. īennu 3-D: Anatomy of an Asteroid, by Brian May and Professor Dante Lauretta, will be released on 27th July 2023. Along with Dr Helena Bates, Dr Paul Schofield, Ashley King and Catherine Harrison, Sara plans to use our specialist techniques and equipment to analyse the returned material and compare it to the meteorites in our world-class collection. After which you’ll learn from Sara what it means to us to be one of the first institutions anywhere in the world to get to analyse the sample. You’ll find out all about the inner workings of the mission from Dante and discover the challenges involved in visiting one of the most potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroids. Hear all about what Dante and Brian discovered during their recent collaborative study of Bennu - Bennu 3-D: Anatomy of an Asteroid published by the London Stereoscopic Company - and hear from Sara about how her team is preparing to analyse the sample. The authors will also share projections of captivating stereoscopic 3-D images of Bennu that became a part of the successful effort to find a safe landing site for the mission.ĭuring the evening, our host Sky at Night presenter Professor Chris Lintott will chat to Brian about how he came onboard the OSIRIS-REx team to help stereo image the asteroid’s surface and how his 3D representations of its surface played a critical role in helping the team select the best site to collect their sample. Join us for an enlightening evening as Professor Dante Lauretta, Sir Brian May and our researcher Professor Sara Russell give you an insider’s overview of the ground-breaking OSIRIS-REx mission. The pristine material contained within will offer scientists a precious window into the past, to a time when our solar system was forming, about 4.5 billion years ago. ![]() If all goes to plan, the capsule containing rocks and dust collected from the asteroid’s surface in 2020 should land safely in the dusty expanse of the Utah desert. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx, the first US mission to collect a sample from an asteroid, will return home on 24 September 2023 with material from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. Understanding the chemical makeup of asteroids is essential to investigating how our solar system formed. ![]()
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