ED33 - Exploring Small Bodies in Our Solar System with Osiris-REX, Rosetta, New Horizons (NASA)
DPCCP 5 Gotham City (STEM)
Saturday June 1, 2019 - 4:30 pm to 5:20 pm
Upates and details about some of the projects the Boulder-based NASA contractor, Southwest Research Institute has been working on since last year's con. Mission control at Lockheed Martin Space facility in Littleton watched last December as the Osiris-Rex probe landed on Bennu to collect samples to determine the asteroid's composition; Rosetta was the first mission in history to rendezvous with a comet, escort it as it orbits the Sun, and deploy a lander to its surface. It has now left the solar system, after transmitting years worth of data; NASA's New Horizons went farther into space than any previous deep space spacecraft ever launched, past Pluto and transmitted spectacular images of Ultima Thule - a Kuiper Belt asteroid.
