{"id":38679,"date":"2018-12-12T18:07:06","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T12:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=38679"},"modified":"2018-12-12T18:07:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T12:37:06","slug":"nasa-probe-finds-signs-of-water-on-nearby-asteroid-bennu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nasa-probe-finds-signs-of-water-on-nearby-asteroid-bennu\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA probe finds signs of water on nearby asteroid Bennu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/world-news\/nasa-probe-finds-signs-of-water-on-nearby-asteroid-bennu\/story-agnVQqx30VR9xih5xRTAHP.html\"><strong>NASA probe finds signs of water on nearby asteroid Bennu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NASA probe finds signs of water on nearby Asteroid Bennu<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>NASA&#8217;s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft<\/strong> has discovered traces of hydrogen and oxygen molecules near asteroid Bennu.<\/li>\n<li>Data obtained from the spacecraft&#8217;s revealed the presence of molecules that contain oxygen and hydrogen atoms bonded together<strong>, known as &#8216;hydroxyls.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Bennu &#8211; OSIRIS-REx Mission<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The probe, on a mission to return samples from the asteroid to Earth, was launched in 2016. Bennu, roughly a third of a mile wide (500 meters), orbits the sun at roughly the same distance as Earth.<\/li>\n<li>OSIRIS-REx was launched to determine Bennu\u2019s physical and chemical properties, which will be critical to know in the event of an impact mitigation mission.<\/li>\n<li>Bennu is a B-type asteroid with a 500-meter diameter. It completes an orbit around the Sun every 436.604 days (1.2 years) and every 6 years comes very close to Earth, within 0.002 AU.<\/li>\n<li>It is expected to have organic compounds and water-bearing minerals like clays.<\/li>\n<li>Beenu is carbonaceous asteroid whose regolith may record the earliest history of our solar system.<\/li>\n<li>It is also considered one of the most potentially hazardous asteroids, as it has a relatively high probability of impacting the Earth late in the 22nd century.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA probe finds signs of water on nearby asteroid Bennu News: NASA probe finds signs of water on nearby Asteroid Bennu Facts: NASA&#8217;s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has discovered traces of hydrogen and oxygen molecules near asteroid Bennu. Data obtained from the spacecraft&#8217;s revealed the presence of molecules that contain oxygen and hydrogen atoms bonded together, known&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nasa-probe-finds-signs-of-water-on-nearby-asteroid-bennu\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NASA probe finds signs of water on nearby asteroid Bennu<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704851590},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}