'Hey, can I have a sample?' 'Only a spoonful' *pulls out comically large sample probe*

@theussmirage

3 жыл бұрын

My sides escaped the gravitational influence of the Earth and are currently orbiting the sun as a result of that joke lmao

@OfficialJervin

3 жыл бұрын

now this is actually really funny

@geraldfrost4710

3 жыл бұрын

take that, alien object! you've been probed!

3 жыл бұрын

*cosmically? :D

@zachhoy

3 жыл бұрын

yes!

'NASA Accidentally Collects Too Many Rocks' may be the best news of 2020.

@illessen8995

3 жыл бұрын

Until it comes out one of the rocks was actually an egg and now we have xenomorphs running around on earth.

@kiraqueen117

3 жыл бұрын

@@illessen8995 pls no.

@prafulpohare

3 жыл бұрын

well they're losing it anyway

@username-gf1sf

3 жыл бұрын

There wasn't much competition

@laurachapple6795

3 жыл бұрын

@@username-gf1sf 'Green Puppy Born' is actually a pretty close contender.

Bennu hitting Earth 3 million years later: Someone asked for a sample?

@davidharrison7014

3 жыл бұрын

2020: Earth (to Bennu): "Tag, you're it!" 3 Million Years from now: Bennu (to Earth): "Tag, YOU'RE it!!"

@fuffoon

Жыл бұрын

When Bronterocs rule the earth.

@trevorrentfro1825

Жыл бұрын

Fun fact bennu's Rotation is eccelleratimg due to the effect the sun has on irregular bodies. Soon this force will overcome the same force that holds bennu together and it will basically just defuse into space as a big cloud of rocks

@rogervanbommel1086

Жыл бұрын

Well, we have a DART, no big deal

@88997799

Жыл бұрын

Wont be 3 million years… it will be much much sooner.

I was so hoping the bolder next to the "landing" site would be called Bennu Hill rather than Mount Doom.

@blipco5

3 жыл бұрын

Paul Rautenbach, For Benny 🍻

@michelcoutu6332

3 жыл бұрын

I'd vote for "Benny Hill" because of the comical outcome🍺

Bennu: Why all those troubles to get some samples from me? I'll just come to you.

@oqibidipo

3 жыл бұрын

Not so fast!

@mario927265

3 жыл бұрын

well it is one of the 4 future asteroids that might hit earth 1:(29075) 1950DA. 2:(99942) Apophis. 3:(101955) Bennu. 4:(410777) 2009FD

@mgpmisterk2322

3 жыл бұрын

The earths population: *confused screaming*

@nonfique429

3 жыл бұрын

Please don't. Thank you.

@tomhsia4354

3 жыл бұрын

DON'T GIVE 2020 ANY NEW IDEAS! Or, given the trend of recent years. DON'T GIVE UPCOMING YEARS ANY IDEAS!

Seldom has the maxim "less haste, more speed" seemed so applicable.

@sonic4spuds

3 жыл бұрын

I think the opposite is true in this case.

@JKTCGMV13

3 жыл бұрын

I’ve heard “make haste slowly” in a game and thought it was a joke. What’s this saying from originally?

@HuntingTarg

3 жыл бұрын

@@JKTCGMV13 wow, wish I had read this before commenting. _"festina lente"_ , Latin; approx. translation: "make haste at [your] leisure" or "make haste slowly"

@colbyuetake130

3 жыл бұрын

I think Blue Origin's slogan will fit quite nicely here

@prizmiccc6003

3 жыл бұрын

@@JKTCGMV13 en

"So long, Bennu. And thanks for all the gravel." Needs to be on a t-shirt IMMEDIATELY!

0:27 "blowing a raspberry on the belly of a 4.5 billion year old asteroid" is still pretty unprofessional, "farting in it's face and running away" is the official term real rocket scientists use.

@dogwalker666

3 жыл бұрын

So they Trumped on an asteroid, that's one for Guinness.

@mikecallahan8234

3 жыл бұрын

I like farting in its face much better. That's totally me.

@nonyabeeznuss304

3 жыл бұрын

I prefer "booped it's snoot."

@melelconquistador

3 жыл бұрын

Not even crop dusting wtf

@lostpony4885

2 жыл бұрын

Scotts have a more energetic idea of "raspberry" than i do it seems

that probe is so greedy. maybe it was too excited after the long journey

@moosemaimer

3 жыл бұрын

"not gonna go overboard at the buffet, just one plate"

@MrWATCHthisWAY

3 жыл бұрын

So after a long and lonely journey it ejected more than anticipated. Must have been designed by a man.lol... Sorry Scott for the poor comparison but you made me say it! Lol Fly Safe and hope it doesn’t bring back some unwanted Andromeda Strain’s because we have enough deadly viruses to deal with these days. Also given the fact that cells may be carried by debris in space and become active when give the warm soup that brings them to an active state of splitting or mutating. Ugh! Sounds like a great movie.... oh wait?

@1943vermork

3 жыл бұрын

It’s like when the food is too good and you eat too much but the aftermath is that horrible feeling of having trouble breathing

@GeekyBrian96

3 жыл бұрын

When you don't see your girl for awhile

@jamespaul2587

3 жыл бұрын

Premature evacuation apparently! 🙂

Osiris Rex: I promise Bennu, just the tip. Bennu: Okay, but... just the tip. Scott Manley: They reckon they might have gone half a meter inside this asteroid!

@TheDarkSide11891

3 жыл бұрын

What are you doing step-probe?

@sneakytom7416

3 жыл бұрын

Oh my god. This comment.

@tiagol8200

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@JSOGaming

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheDarkSide11891 ffs hahaha

@tma2001

3 жыл бұрын

never mind blowing raspberrys, more like fisting ...

If Bennu hits earth, imagine all the scientists being upset that all that pristine primordial planetary dust getting contaminated.

@andersjjensen

3 жыл бұрын

If a ~500m object with an estimated mass of 10M Ton hits earth I think they may be slightly preoccupied with other things :P

@DctrBread

3 жыл бұрын

would also make it feel a little rough after going so far for a sample when we couldve just waited

@richardcaldwell6159

3 жыл бұрын

@@andersjjensen naw. You're thinking it's bullet-like. But the sampler went into it like nothing. A bunch of lightweight and very weak gravel, it is. They just showed that it's probably not a danger at all, just a future grand meteor shower. (though an alien spaceship could be hiding inside)

@andersjjensen

3 жыл бұрын

@@richardcaldwell6159 Uhm, it doesn't matter if a meteor is solid or a bunch of gravel. Scott Manly even did a piece on that with calculations and all. The amount of total kinetic energy that gets converted to heat is what matters. It doesn't matter if you get a big localized impact that sends a huge shockwave in every direction or if the atmosphere over a huge area gets hot enough to set everything on fire...

@DctrBread

3 жыл бұрын

@@richardcaldwell6159 all asteroids are loosely packed like this except for the very few largest

So this means Bruce Willis just needs a garden shovel to bury the nuke in the asteroid.

@TrayPorthos

3 жыл бұрын

probably wouldn't even need a nuke, just a handful of firecrackers. Or you could just send Chuck Norris to yell at it.

@ridizzle189

3 жыл бұрын

@@TrayPorthos chuck norris solves every problem and should always be the first option

@happyhans383

3 жыл бұрын

No time in the moment, B. W. 😎

@thenasadude6878

3 жыл бұрын

How would you shovel in almost 0 G? That would be hilarious to watch

@RCAvhstape

3 жыл бұрын

@@thenasadude6878 I dunno, but in that stupid movie they were driving a drilling rig rover thing around in super low g, so, Hollywood rules.

The "Touch And Go" maneuver was acronymized as a TAG, so does that mean now Bennu is "it"?

@Patnik86

3 жыл бұрын

You think this is a game till Bennu tries to tag us back.

@g4me-time524

3 жыл бұрын

@@Patnik86 oh god, I hope not. Would be horrible for us if Bennu tags us back 💥

@samuellove9619

3 жыл бұрын

@@Patnik86 2020: "I'll allow that"

@jaredkennedy6576

3 жыл бұрын

Well they can keep it away by just saying no tagbacks. They should have said it while doing the tag, but this thing is so old what's a few days?

@martinmc0950

3 жыл бұрын

Actually, there is a possibility of this asteroid colliding with earth within the next few centuries

Everyone whos vacuumed popcorn up and clogged their vacuum understands what has happened here

@fridaycaliforniaa236

3 жыл бұрын

Omg, best comparison ever 😂😂

@alexlandherr

3 жыл бұрын

More like popcorn clogging your Mustang’s carborator...

@vincewilson1

3 жыл бұрын

My vacuum is designed to pick up popcorn without clogging. You need to look at some Bissle's. I bought an Airoswift.

@BlackEpyon

3 жыл бұрын

Get a ShopVac.

@jasonlast7091

3 жыл бұрын

Bennu made of popcorn confirmed.

Future-Bennu inbound for Earth: I want my pebbles back!

it being 2020, we probably added just enough momentum to Bennu to alter it's course toward earth.

"how to do this quickly and slowly" Every time I try to land on the dark side of the Mun but realize that I forgot those goddamn batteries

@specialopsdave

3 жыл бұрын

Or when you have no comm network or pilot on the far side I've lost too many probes, and can't land without SAS lmao

@krungstar4541

3 жыл бұрын

Or forgot the light!!

@snickle1980

3 жыл бұрын

@@krungstar4541 It's often the lights I end up forgetting. "my battery is low and it's getting dark" scenario for sure.

@2k9bulb2k9

3 жыл бұрын

@@specialopsdave mech jeb for me but did land on the darkside without the land altitude meter in the old version which only showed sea level. Before i played KSP i didnt understand orbital mechanics that game showed me the ropes on two things orbital mechanics and how to install mods.

@zensunni1715

3 жыл бұрын

@@specialopsdave I've begun to obsessively send relays on a halo orbit around the target celestial body. Pretty much overkill and a huge timesink but, hey, I don't miss anymore 🤷🏽‍♂️

Interestingly, getting material from half a meter down means it's even *more* pristine - hasn't been exposed to either radiation or the solar wind.

@Felipe_Rosso

3 жыл бұрын

Stonks

@JarrodFrates

3 жыл бұрын

We can't quite say that. Aggregate asteroids may have been broken up by impacts and re-aggregated multiple times. The material is likely *less* affected by exposure to space, but it probably has some.

@-danR

3 жыл бұрын

For that reason I'd have preferred they used argon instead of nitrogen, which can form nitrides, even at very low temperatures. When you're measuring quantitatively for things in the ppb range in modern analytical research labs, you want as little as possible exogenous signal in the sample confounding the record. I actually did a search yesterday as to how they arrived at the sampling procedure and could find precious little about how they considered contamination factors and nothing whatever about nitrogen itself. I won't accept the 'well, I imagine they know what they're doing.' The fact that they never factored in a range of Bennu soil consolidation from cementaceous aggregates to nearly unbound fluff (which latter hasn't exactly been excluded with respect to asteroid and comet composition over several decades). Even in the days before lunar landers, there was some question as to whether a probe might sink below the Moon's surface as though it were quicksand.

@dave8599

3 жыл бұрын

They also must consider particles of the retro rocket exhausts may contaminate the sample.

@vonschlesien

3 жыл бұрын

@@dave8599 if I understand the mechanical design and flight profile, the design accounts at least for that source of contamination; if the mechanical parts had worked, the sample would have been in a sealed container by the time the thrusters fired

7:41 holy hell this thing is huge.. idk why I expected it was just a little cubic meter looking thing

Sometimes I think we can do all space exploration with robots, and then I see a robot arm requiring a team of hundreds of people trying to figure out how to put a box in a box.

@Thumbsupurbum

3 жыл бұрын

Robots only work as well as they were designed to by people.

@ChildovGhad

3 жыл бұрын

The Soviets were sending robotic probes to the moon and Venus in the late '50s and early '60s. That's really the smartest way to go about space exploration.

@davidharrison7014

3 жыл бұрын

@@ChildovGhad Not to mention less expensive and not so dangerous.

@ChildovGhad

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidharrison7014 Exactly. That's precisely what made it the smartest way to go.

@quantumblur_3145

Жыл бұрын

Reminds me of mid-mission robot improvisation in First Lego League. Good times.

"Blowing a raspberry"...? If care in needed to target a location between boulders then technically it's more like 'Motorboating'.

@robynsnest8668

3 жыл бұрын

You win the internet today. Lol. I was thinking the very same thing. Hahahahaha

@LibertyDankmeme

3 жыл бұрын

^^^ under-rated comment - i second the motion to name this maneuver "motorboating"

@timgooding2448

3 жыл бұрын

Made me laugh. Thanks.😄

@IvorMektin1701

3 жыл бұрын

My girlfriend calls them "zerberts"🤷‍♀️

@scottstewart5784

3 жыл бұрын

@@IvorMektin1701 When did she change that?

Turns out Bennu is just made of old laundry lint. Who knew?

@Frrk

3 жыл бұрын

This makes sense. The galaxy is actually a giant washing machine.

@slidey1000

3 жыл бұрын

I had left socks in the sweepstakes

@crackedemerald4930

3 жыл бұрын

and the boulders are missing socks

@moosemaimer

3 жыл бұрын

"This is where all the missing left socks in the universe go!"

@jerrymiller276

3 жыл бұрын

@@slidey1000 Most of my socks revert to ambi socksterousness during washing, but some do retain footedness, clearly having left and right socks even post laundry. The trick with socks that revert is to buy lots of the same kind and keep the odd ones so you can just re pair them with other remainders as socks vanish into the laundrycal dimension.

Sent this to my grandpa, he has show me all about space through my whole life, i'm 33 and he is 94, he was stoked to hear about this video so i had to send it to him. And yes he is healthy as ever, good genes 👍

I really feel like NASA needs to make a youtube series on how they design and tested space craft like this. The engineering is just so damn cool.

Osiris-rex: how are u bennu Bennu: good h.. *screams Osiris-rex: hope u don't mind me borrowing some of ur gravel

@burntchickennugget191

3 жыл бұрын

You died

@redballthing

3 жыл бұрын

"borrow" but you don't return it lol

@burntchickennugget191

3 жыл бұрын

@@redballthing Literally blew a hole into him.

@StevenSmith6942_

3 жыл бұрын

uh "blowing and rasberry on its belly" i believe is the awesome scientific term we use for this specific maneuver at present...0.34

@Kualinar

3 жыл бұрын

@@redballthing Not borrow, but much more like bUrrow...

"Hopefully we won't see Benu later" I mean, you wouldn't mind having it in orbit next to an orbital foundry. But we aren't there yet. Let's just hope we don't have to see it up close until we're there to use it as raw materials.

@_tsu_

3 жыл бұрын

not the right thing to say in 2020

@aronseptianto8142

3 жыл бұрын

i mean yeah, Bennu is close and all but, what are you going to do with carbon?

@NevelWong

3 жыл бұрын

@@aronseptianto8142 space potatoes

@uneducatedseinor4962

3 жыл бұрын

@@aronseptianto8142 carbon-carbon 👌

@Formula1st

3 жыл бұрын

@@aronseptianto8142 carbonate stuff

Imagine if that Raspberry was the Raspberry that pushes Bennu into a collision course... The raspberry that destroyed the world...

"Way to go, Charlie Brown. It took that rock four million years to get here to the shore, and now you've thrown it back."

@joldsaway3489

3 жыл бұрын

I got a rock!

@davidharrison7014

3 жыл бұрын

Charlie Brown then says to himself, "Why is it that everything I do makes me feel guilty?"

So the satellite said it was going to just touch the tip then went balls deep? No surprise there.

@deusexaethera

3 жыл бұрын

No, it went in up to the elbow. Look at the footage.

@BKD70

3 жыл бұрын

Just like anything else the government does...

@Alyzbane

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds sexual

@fiegenfiegen

3 жыл бұрын

A Spanish saying: "Prometer hasta meter y, una vez metido, olvidar lo prometido" (freely translatable as "Promise until you score, and once you score, remember the promise no more").

@deusexaethera

3 жыл бұрын

@@fiegenfiegen: If it's a Spanish saying, why does it only rhyme in English?

The good old satellite reach around

@jeffjames4064

3 жыл бұрын

Is it in yet? 😁

@yaboibubby

3 жыл бұрын

@Brody Massey sus

That feel when you dig up some space rocks with your space "shovel", but then the sand and rocks keep you from closing the lid on your space bucket.

@kendallemory8455

3 жыл бұрын

I wonder if NASA can align the axis of the re-entry canister and the sample head so that you can use centripetal force to keep the loose material in the sample head and any escaping debris will drift free of the assemblies.

@tomorrow6

3 жыл бұрын

These aren’t nice smooth rocks either , Un weathered except by the tidal forces acting on the other particles. But the surface is likely lots of broken pieces of other asteroids with rough edges and sharp edges.

Thank you Scott, this is soo much more satisfying to watch than the 'news' .

man when i saw all the clean suit dudes standing around it did i finally get a sense of scale lol

@Fireheart318

3 жыл бұрын

Same! I thought it was just a lil robot and then I saw you could fit a small car in it!

"Hopefully we don't see Bennu up close later at any future time I'm gonna be around for. Sucks for my grandkids tho lol" -Scott Manley

@adamkerman475

3 жыл бұрын

@@milktruckdriver that’s not a good idea Edit: it’s a horrible idea

@Zonkotron

3 жыл бұрын

@@adamkerman475 Probably IS. Nuking an asteroid 3 days before it would impact earth ISNT. Nuking it something like 350 years before cannot be. Being blasted apart with more than escape velocity would disperse the debris in timing and position and/or deflect the main body enough that it is in a way different spot 350 years later.....

@KinreeveNaku

3 жыл бұрын

@@Zonkotron you assume that a nuke would even do anything. How does a nuclear detonation even behave without an atmosphere around it?

@bluemountain4181

3 жыл бұрын

@@milktruckdriver Would a nuke even be necessary? Give how loosely packed it is and the low escape velocity maybe it could be blown apart by spraying it with compressed gas at close range, like a leaf blower. Edit: Nevermind I just looked up how big it is and it's much more massive than I thought it was. Turns out it's 73 million tons lol.

@miserychickadee

3 жыл бұрын

With 350 years to play with, you could skip the nuke and nudge it with much more subtle and more precise means, like solar sails or some kind of low-TWR, high-ISP engine. As a NEO, you're never going to have 350 years of warning before an impact because the orbits are too unstable this close in. A long-period comet could give you that kind of predictability, but if you're spotting it from 350 years away, that's one helluva comet. Maybe more of a dwarf planet, at that point.

Scott, you’ve put out so much excellent info-packed content over the years, but this debrief on Osiris REX goes above and beyond in terms of timeliness and providing answers. Thank you!

NASA engineers: "We need to modify the spacecraft's programming so it can deal with some unexpected changes in the mission." The tech guy: "Uuuuupdate Windows!"

@Molb0rg

3 жыл бұрын

lol))

@christopherf8160

3 жыл бұрын

Ugh no. The windows update starts during the last 5 minutes of the landing. And the windows update takes 45 minutes.

4:23 Osiris Rex gave Bennu an exploding fist-bump

@jackboot3946

3 жыл бұрын

Probably nudged it off course just enough...

@Saiyijon

3 жыл бұрын

When that fist goes a foot and a half inside you, it's not a bump any more. It's just fisting.

The TAG mission was amazing. I’ve been following this mission and the Japanese one and it’s truly incredible. Amazing work to the teams of both mission and god speed for the missions return!

Success! On October 30th, NASA confirmed safe stowage of the sample disk in the return capsule. A two day process was conducted on October 27th and 28th, with a pause after each step in the process to allow ground controllers to confirm the step was accomplished correctly and no loose material was in the way. Controllers have confirmed that the latches securing the sample container in the capsule have engaged, and that the latches securing the two parts of the sample return capsule together have also engaged as designed.

Scott, every time one of your videos drop, I get sincere happiness. You’re one of the last KZread channels that are a complete total break from anything political and purely scientific that is worth watching. And for that I thank you.

So, we might get a MUCH bigger sample of Bennu in the future..ALL of it in fact..🤔😉

@bluemountain4181

3 жыл бұрын

If Starship is up and running by then maybe we can just collect it when it arrives

@tonyelsom6382

3 жыл бұрын

@@bluemountain4181 😉 That's a hellova lot of rock to collect...especially at the speed it travels.

@bluemountain4181

3 жыл бұрын

@@tonyelsom6382 Ha I just looked it up and it's far more massive than I thought it was. I was thinking it would be a few thousand tons but it's actually 73 million tons lol.

@tonyelsom6382

3 жыл бұрын

@@bluemountain4181 Yup, as I did discover just before I replied to you..I think it would be catastrophic for any life as we know it when that rock hits the planet. Oh, Earth would survive, but we most certainly won't.

@spacewafflez8431

3 жыл бұрын

I think they have missile systems or something to prevent that from happening, but I’m not sure

So basically Bennu is a sponge, a heap of gravel loosely bound by its weak gravity.

@rafdaguy6103

3 жыл бұрын

I think a lot of it is actually bound by tiny electrostatic forces

@HotelPapa100

3 жыл бұрын

@@rafdaguy6103 Good point. That's what binds the first conglomerates. Makes you wonder what would happen if a body like that would indeed slam into earths atmosphere.

@kamuroshow4884

3 жыл бұрын

Jeah i think that might be just the case. For geologists still very interesting. Like, VERY interesting! What a mission.... can't wait for the sample return and examination of it!!

@bamafan-in-OZ

3 жыл бұрын

@@HotelPapa100 hopefully it will start to break up before entry and become an light show

@dave8599

3 жыл бұрын

Well, all we know is that the top meter or so is loose gravel like in the area we sampled. How deep the loose stuff is, what is under it, we don't know. And everything might be much different a 100 yards away. If the sample gets back, we will have chemical analysis of that small spot on Bennu's outer surface. Anything else is speculation.

"Blowing a raspberry on the belly of a 4 and a half billion year old asteroid". Scott Manley, always a professional. Funny thing is, this is actually the most technically accurate depiction of the sampling process.

"See you in 2 years" - well, here we are! Only o couple of days left, can't wait to see it coming back to earth!

@Fredrikaolsen

9 ай бұрын

I remember seeing this when it came. Looking forward to the return!

I’d much rather call the Touch and Go, “Booping an Asteroid”

@atiseru

3 жыл бұрын

Boop and randezvoop

@vid2ification

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like buttstuff

@codename495

3 жыл бұрын

@@vid2ification What kind of buttstuff have you been researching if “Booping” sounds in any way sexual...

@vid2ification

3 жыл бұрын

@@codename495 the only kind of course, Shoulder Deep

@joeyknight8272

3 жыл бұрын

@@vid2ification 😳

Bennu to earth- " you want samples? I can give you all"

"Quickly and slowly" It's an optimization problem!

The more I hear about this mission, the more fascinating I find it. Great video.

NASA "so we changed the trajectory of bennu?" Looks like we are getting a bigger sample than we thought in 2023.......

@SahilP2648

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao if that is true then that would be the meme of the century

@berat700_

3 жыл бұрын

@@SahilP2648 meme of the 20 years*

The sample return capsule looks exactly like Stardust's including the closing & latch mechanisms. I assume that they have the G-switch in the correct orientation and they have the RC filter time constant correct on the G-sense/triggering circuit? I also assume it has the spin-up/release spring mechanism embedded inside the spacecraft structure where we cannot see it? When I try to explain Rocket Propulsion to those that are "Physics Challenged" I often use a Crossbow or Catapult as an example to keep it purely mechanical at first. When I ask if a Crossbow would still have recoil in space, I get the "Well YOU have never fired a crossbow in space, how would YOU KNOW?" Then I tell them I helped build, test, and Launch Stardust which LITERALLY DID FIre a "Crossbow" when it released the sample return capsule towards earth. The force of the "Recoil" on the spacecraft was not only modeled in advance but verified when the Accelerometers onboard registered the momentum change when the SRC was released. I wish them luck on the return and re-entry. "Stardust" type luck, NOT "Genesis" type luck.... :-)

@uneducatedseinor4962

3 жыл бұрын

Very cool! Stardust went to a comet right? And where their cameras onboard?

@xureality

3 жыл бұрын

@@uneducatedseinor4962 yes there is. pics: stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/photo/index.html

@stuartgray5877

3 жыл бұрын

@@uneducatedseinor4962 Yes. Stardust retrieved samples from the Coma of Comet Wild-2 and returned them to Earth in 2004. It was the world's fastest man-made object to reenter earth's atmosphere at the time. (Launch and sample return videos on my YT channel). It also held the record for furthest solar powered spacecraft from the sun (recently beaten by Juno). And Yes Stardust had a camera but the quality was not anywhere near as good as people expected. The camera was meant for Navigation primarily. I also worked on the Genesis spacecraft that crashed into the desert because it's G-sensor was installed backwards. Following those mission I worked Deep Impact as well. Coincidentally the Deep Impact spacecraft was unable to get a picture of the hole created in the comet. SO the Stardust spacecraft was actually able to flyby and get the image we missed. SO TWO of my spacecraft visited Comet Tempel-1.

While watching this video I had for the entire time a big fat smile on my face. Space exploration is just so unbelievably amazing. - Thank you for the excellent coverage. :)

So we have a satellite that got more than it bargained for when visiting an asteroid. Also it accidentally dug way deeper than expected to get it... And it's on its way back to earth for analysis. Is this not how quite a few sci fi horror stories would start?

@Molb0rg

3 жыл бұрын

))))

@ronbussiere9436

3 жыл бұрын

COVID was just a warm up. Wait until that canister cracks open upon landing and unleashes some GOD only knows what bacterial / viral life form that has been laying deep in that asteroid since the solar system was young. Some future aliens will arrive and find an extinct earth and wonder what the heck were we thinking.

@Pyxis10

3 жыл бұрын

There is nothing to fear fellow human. It's just some rocks and sand. No brain sucking alein parasite eggs were picked up. All is well.

@mikecallahan8234

3 жыл бұрын

Surely something is amiss.

@Molb0rg

3 жыл бұрын

@@ronbussiere9436 >form that has been laying deep in that asteroid since the solar system was young. you can't believe how happy biologists and a bunch of other people who are interested in the origins of life, will be if it happens )))

"In the beginnings of asteroid mining they actually grabbed 'too much' stuff!"

Yet another reason to kiss the hard HARD ground on which we live, and don't sink into every time we stand up. I ❤️ earth.

Hello Scott. Love the models you have in the background. Thanks for posting.

Stupid question : What happens if the sample return capsule has 1 kg of material instead of 60 grams ? Will it work correctly during reentry with all that added weight ?

@timoheinz2879

3 жыл бұрын

As far as I know it is capable of a maximum of about 4 kilograms of samples, but they didn't expect to get that much at any point.

@theencolony5595

3 жыл бұрын

The re-entry capsule is much more massive than the weight of the samples, so the extra mass won't change the outcome, although the trajectory will be slightly different

@abelis644

3 жыл бұрын

Weight is usually a problem for fuel. Remember the Lunar missions brought back a lot of rocks.

@theencolony5595

3 жыл бұрын

@@abelis644 OSIRIS-REx is 880kg dry, so an extra kilogram of fuel is perfectly within the error of margin for the probe's ∆v

@maxnaz47

3 жыл бұрын

As explained in the video, they are a long way from securing the sample in the return capsule, if there is still loose rocks, dirt and debris floating around when they try to place the canister inside, that dirt and debris can get into the mechanisms that close and seal the capsule, meaning, an almost 100% chance of burning up upon reentry into earth's atmosphere and loosing everything.

Finally a video about this!

Kind of a "touch and go", in my opinion.

@janosskublics7438

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah.... They basicali raped poor Benu

@LordFalconsword

3 жыл бұрын

@@janosskublics7438 Yeah, well, it's a rockpile so I don't think it cares.

@janosskublics7438

3 жыл бұрын

Wouldnt even be surprised if he would come back to hit Earth revenging that we smacked a sample collector half meter down his soft belly

@mariasirona1622

3 жыл бұрын

The sample collection systems name is TAGSAM, Touch-And-Go Sample Aqcusition System.

@uneducatedseinor4962

3 жыл бұрын

Touch, sink, go

This was fun to watch again knowing the mission was a resounding success.

It's amazing that we can even do anything like this. Fascinating, as always. Appreciate the quality video as per usual!

@tommypetraglia4688

3 жыл бұрын

For the novice, the layman, the uninitiated astrophysics like this is absolutely mind blowing... and blessed be Scott for presenting in such a way You can see the enormous collection of intelligence working as a singular mind. Their joy over their success was palpable, giving me a lift.

So far, the "foamy Omuamua" theory seems to be a favorite of Bennu...

Scott it’s literally 1 am in LA when you uploaded this are you trying to deprive me of sleep

@svenblackwell4550

3 жыл бұрын

Ha, try being in the midwest :)

@v_raptor2218

3 жыл бұрын

@@svenblackwell4550 it’s still 5 am here lol

@samuellove9619

3 жыл бұрын

*laughs in Straya*

@GewelReal

3 жыл бұрын

Just turn off your phone and go to sleep. You'll watch this tommorow

@aemrt5745

3 жыл бұрын

He is pretty good at doing that! 😁

Wow... I can't imagine that I watched it two years ago, and now just few weeks away from delivery ☺😁

These are the awesome details we come here for! Thanks Scott

I thought that was the Great Salt Lake when I saw that part of the video. Happy that was confirmed. I hadn't otherwise heard. FINALLY something space related, that is cool, other than Northrup Grumman, will be in Utah. This makes my nerd heart happy.

Wouldn't it be hilarious if we found out that this touch moved Bennu to a collision course with earth in 10 years? That would fit 2020😂

@deanfawcett2085

3 жыл бұрын

They probably modelled that. There's not much that they don't catch but hey haha time to test our deflection technologies...

@leefithian3704

3 жыл бұрын

Right , like indirectly, bumped it into something else, that bumps it to us lol

@xureality

3 жыл бұрын

@@deanfawcett2085 given that we now know bennu has quite a deep loose layer, i'd reckon a good explosion would turn it into a meteor shower.

@patrlim

3 жыл бұрын

Ssshhhhh

@urano1988

3 жыл бұрын

That would not be such a bad news: giving it another push even thousands times stronger, would be relatively easy compared to collecting a sample.

I dont know why it took so long for me to subscribe to your channel, I love watching your videos. I was 13 years old when we landed on the moon and grew up smiling at all things NASA (or any other space programs).

Excellent discussion, all I have heard are degrading things about encounter. Your description of it shows just exactly how hard this mission was. Thanks Scott.

"OOPs! All Asteroid" cereal coming to a store near you.

Absolutely amazing. What a fantastic time we live in!!!!!

Saw you on the 100th show of Our Ludicrous Future. Thought you were interesting and highly knowledgeable as well as passionate. That has prompted me to subscribe. I saw while watching this vid that you have an adequate and respectable number of subs so I want to make it known I'm in it for the valuable content like the rest. Thanks.

Excellent reporting on the OSIRIS REx Mission! Thank you.

Touch And Go TAG! You're it!

@stevengaming3689

3 жыл бұрын

@Ho Lam YIU Yeah....

Why the heck are there 5 dislikes? Seriously??? This is awesome and thank you Scott. Your videos are really informative and an asset to the normal people out here. Your joy is palatable. I guess those five are Flat Earthers all around the Globe.

@davidhenneberg2661

3 жыл бұрын

There are 26 dislikes now half of them are probably flat Earthers and half of them are sjws upset because they just graped an asteroid

These Americans are amazing. The kind of space missions they take up is crazy!

Awesome to made this. I was just watching a nova episode about this the other day but they hadn't collected the samples yet.

"They need to do this Slowly an quickly" My friend is an expert in it

everybody: jokes on the asteroid coming here to earth 2020: mmmm... ಠ_ಠ

@danieltaylor1464

3 жыл бұрын

That would be the cherry on the cake for 2020

Your updates are always the most informed

2:30 That motion interpolation is amazing. I can see some distortion in it, but it's quite good!

10:14 How cranky do you reckon they'll be if they find out it's a big ball of bean-bag beans, painted black? 🤣

aaa very interesting! i am only 18 so its v exciting to see breakthroughs like this happening in my babie lifetime :) who would have thought that the asteroid would be so mushy! thank u for your coverage of osiris rex!!

@protonjinx

3 жыл бұрын

Oh man I envy you... oh wait, climate change... scratch the envy. I pity you.

Thanks Scott! Anyone else getting flashbacks from the design of the return capsule? Looks very similar to a sample return vehicle from the 1971 movie "The Andromeda Strain"!😱 Excellent movie! Lets hope these samples are less, Lively!😀

Thanks Scott for this insight to the process of OSIRIS collecting samples from Bennu. It is so exciting, mind blowing.

I'm sad they can't all hug each other when it touched down.

@GaryNumeroUno

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, I would have liked to give blondie a hug!

@deusexaethera

3 жыл бұрын

Not on camera, anyway.

@schmeegil2240

3 жыл бұрын

Yh , bcos we can send a craft millions of miles grab a sample and return, but we can't read the side of the packet our masks come in ...... STATING , DOES NOT FILTER VIRAL PARTICLES!

Just for those interested, I think technically the term ‘carbonaceous chondrite’ does not apply to asteroids. As far as I understand it is a term used for meteorite classifications. Asteroids are for sure linked in a complex way to meteorites, however their classifications are different and not shared between the two...because we do not know this link with any sort of confidence. Instead, asteroids are classified by what we call complex’s (c-complex signifying carbonaceous (but not chondritic specifically), s-complex, etc.). Within the complexes there are ‘types’ (c-complex has c, b, d, etc, - type). These asteroid classifications are all spectra based.

@fraserhenderson7839

3 жыл бұрын

I had this inkling and you just filled me in. I must have read it somewhere. Thanks for the elucidation.

@danhallatt4954

3 жыл бұрын

No problem at all:) I’m not an authority on the jargon so take what I said with a grain of salt.

Thanks for another awesome very detailed report Scott!

Fun fact. “So long and thanks for all the fish" is the title of the fourth book from the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

8:30 _festina lente_ : [Latin, approx.] - 'make haste at your leisure.'

"They have to do this quickly and slowly at the sime time" * starts playing Bennu Hill Theme *

The whole story of NASA figuring out Bennu while orbiting it is part of why science - and especially astronomy - is so awesome. The asteroid was so different than what was expected, and that's a good thing! It means we get to learn something new! In our mundane world, where it seems like there is so little that is truly new and mysterious, it's a reminder of how little we truly know, how grand the secrets are that we have not yet revealed.

This was soon appreciated , solo much gratitude and soon classy, great job!!!!

No way this just came out 😂 what a coincidence when I was looking for something to watch! Thank you Scott!

@echojenkins6964

3 жыл бұрын

They're definitely censoring news and political channels.

@phil20_20

3 жыл бұрын

It says 2 minutes ago on mine... 🤔

When I saw the animation of the sample head, I immediately thought “couldn’t the sample material get caught between the flaps and keep them from closing?” Turns out yes, yes it sure can

@excitedbox5705

3 жыл бұрын

They always over engineer things and it backfires. Send down a diamond shaped bucket on a cable out from a tube with a lid, and fly a circle around the asteroid dragging bucket over surface. reel in the bucket while spinning to keep dirt in the bottom of bucket. Once the bucket is back in the launch tube close the lid. Have a camera in the launch tube for checking the sample. You could have multiple tubes in case a bucket gets caught you cut the cable and try again. or if all work you have multiple probes.

@esuil

3 жыл бұрын

@@excitedbox5705 you can't just drag bucket like that in space, on asteroid without gravity. There would be danger of that bucket becoming anchor and spacecraft going bonk into asteroid. I know it all seems overengineered, but they are not stupid, it is this way for a shitload of reasons.

Thank you Scott for this detailed coverage with pictures of Osiris REx adventure. Frankly I felt emotional, as though a newborn is being prepared to be brought to our earth!👍😁.

Putting the sample in an experiment containment unit and using that for reentry is the most Kerbal mission I've ever heard of in real life.

I find it kind of baffling they didn't consider having a lid they could screw the sample container in case something like this happened. :/

@cmelton6796

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe they'll add that on the next one

@therealpbristow

3 жыл бұрын

Or a spatula to scrape off the excess. =:o} (Brian was right: Never go space-travelling without a trowel!)

@DamianReloaded

3 жыл бұрын

@@therealpbristow A wooden door from where a janitor comes out with a broom XD

OMG! They devised that method of collection and it didn't occur to them that any hatch that is supposed to close might be blocked by rocks? That is amazing!

@myaccount__7269

3 жыл бұрын

Ramblin Wes this is nasa....you expected different?/? Hahhaha

Dude you are so good at explaining things!

Great Video!! I love it! Many things learned today just from this video! Thank you!