Scientists, Explorers Keen to Locate Water-Bearing Asteroids
Dante Lauretta is principal investigator on NASA”s OSIRIS-REx mission, which is bringing back samples from Asteroid Bennu. Researchers on the mission are keen to find asteroids containing water:
Read MoreA Remarkably Constant History of Meteorite Strikes
Dante Lauretta is a professor of planetary sciences at the University of Arizona. This Eos article talks about how scientists have been able to trace Earth’s history of meteorite impacts from analyzing sea sediments:
Read MoreAsteroid Bennu Is Rotating Faster Over Time
Dante Lauretta is principal investigator on NASA”s OSIRIS-REx mission, which is bringing back samples from Asteroid Bennu. Here’s a press release about Bennu from 2019 in Eos about its increasing speed:
Read MoreJames Webb Space Telescope
Dante Lauretta is principal investigator on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. Eos’s August 2021 issue covered another upcoming NASA mission, the James Webb Space Telescope:
Read MoreExploring Planetary Breadcrumbs One Asteroid at a Time
Dante Lauretta is currently working on bringing back samples from Asteroid Bennu through NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. Read about the different asteroid missions happening at the moment, including OSIRIS-REx, in Eos:
Read MoreLori Glaze on Nudging Asteroids
Dante Lauretta and Lori Glaze both studied asteroids at NASA. Check out Lori’s Sci and Tell episode here:
Read MoreMission to Venus Could Help Solve an Atmospheric Mystery
Dante Lauretta is principal investigator on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. In June, NASA announced a new mission to Venus, the DAVINCI+. Eos wrote about what we could learn from it in this article:
Read MoreUp Close with an Active Asteroid
Dante Lauretta is principal investigator for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which focuses on studying Asteroid Bennu. Dante and his colleagues gave us an in depth look at Asteroid Bennu in this Eos article:
Read MoreFinal Frontier? The Evolution of Planetary Science Missions
Dante Lauretta has been working on the planetary mission OSIRIS-REx since 2004! Curious about other NASA planetary science missions? Check out this Third Pod episode with Fran Benegal:
Read MoreAn Asteroid “Double Disaster” Struck Germany in the Miocene
Dante Lauretta is excited to be analyzing samples from Asteroid Bennu in 2 years! More recently, some scientists studying ground samples in Germany learned some cool stuff about 2 asteroids:
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