Uploaded November 2018 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
Two planetary scientists, Carey Lisse from the New Horizons mission, and Amy Simon from the OSIRIS-REx mission, discuss similarities and differences between asteroids and Kuiper Belt Objects - our solar system's most distant bodies.
On Dec. 3, 2018, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission will arrive at Asteroid Bennu where it will spend two years surveying this relic from our solar system's beginnings before ultimately collecting a sample and returning it to Earth in 2023.
On New Year's Day 2019, NASA's New Horizons mission will visit Ultima Thule, making this Kuiper Belt Object the most distant object ever explored by humankind.
Two planetary scientists, Carey Lisse from the New Horizons mission, and Amy Simon from the OSIRIS-REx mission, discuss similarities and differences between asteroids and Kuiper Belt Objects - our solar system's most distant bodies.
On Dec. 3, 2018, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission will arrive at Asteroid Bennu where it will spend two years surveying this relic from our solar system's beginnings before ultimately collecting a sample and returning it to Earth in 2023.
On New Year's Day 2019, NASA's New Horizons mission will visit Ultima Thule, making this Kuiper Belt Object the most distant object ever explored by humankind.
