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Speaker: Br Guy Consolmagno, Director of the Vatican Observatory Foundation
Topic: What’s Surfacing About Bennu?
The recent NASA mission to asteroid Bennu, OSIRIS-REx, which is bringing back samples gathered on its surface, discovered a surface that doesn’t make sense: it’s covered with boulders, but it absorbs heat like a powder. What’s going on and how did it get that way? Our measurements of the most likely analog meteorite type, CM carbonaceous chondrites, suggests a surprising answer.
Date: Friday, January 20, 2023
Time: 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Eastern
Location:
U of M Angell Hall
525 South State Street
Room G115 Angell Hall, University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
