American Museum of Natural History | Field Trip: Asteroids @AmericanMuseumofNaturalHistory | Uploaded July 2020 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
Are asteroids space junk or cosmic treasure? Join a virtual flight to the Asteroid Belt with Museum Curator Denton Ebel and two mission scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, Harold Connolly, Jr. and Vicky Hamilton.

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Find out how many asteroids there are, what they’re made of, whether they may have supplied ingredients for life on Earth, and more while Marina Gemma pilots our exploration of the Main Belt, Trojan, and Near-Earth asteroids. Museum Research Associate Harold Connolly, Jr., who serves as the OSIRIS-REx sample scientist, and Vicky Hamilton, who is the mission’s spectroscopy scientist, will be sharing more about this mission to return samples of the carbon-rich asteroid Bennu to Earth in 2023 and answering questions live. Join the Watch Party on Tuesday, June 30, at 2 pm EDT, or you can watch on this page.

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