Osiris-Rex was a great mission to Bennu to acquire these samples. Scientists should obtain lots of data from their experiments on the samples.

Double check your data on the size of the sample taken from Bennu. According to NASA they recovered 70.3 grams (2.48 ounces), not 200 milligrams (0.007 ounces).

As a retired mechanical engineer, I find the technological genius that went into sending a spacecraft to an asteroid and returning with a sample just mind-blowing. Being involved in such a successful mission must have been very gratifying.

We are not the only living planet, we just haven't found the other ones yet.

Minerals linked to water worlds were most likely blasted off those bodies by impacts in the inner solar system over time and were eventually captured by Bennu.

Dr. Carl Sagan is Correct, We are Made of Starstuff.

@chicojcf

3 ай бұрын

Yes, but know; he wasn't the first to come up with this idea.

Great video. Thank you!

They found Serpentine in the sample! Serpentine is metamorphed Steatite, which is precipitated from mineral rich very hot water under pressure deep underground...that process couldn't occur on a cold, low gee asteroid, so indeed the Serpentine is a piece of another planet or Bennu itself is a piece of another planet, what did they call the hypothetical planet that was where the Asteroid belt is now? It must have been a water world!

I was hoping to hear how they returned these samples so quickly.

Surely earthlings are not so egotistical to think that life, any form, only arose on Earth.

@rickkwitkoski1976

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, some are. YECs for instance

If the origin of Bennu is indeed an ancient aquatic world with organic molecules, by far the most likely source is EARTH ITSELF, which has had such an environment for billions of years.

@mal2ksc

3 ай бұрын

The only collision we know of large enough to generate Bennu came at a time the Earth lacked all that water. Also, if both Venus and Mars once had water, why couldn't it have come from one of them?

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It would be funny to find out that the astroid came from the early earth. We're looking at ourselves

Hay, just make sure you keep that sample secured and under controlled sealed rooms who knows what kind of microbes, are in that sample.....

Wow great, hope you get some more positive results.

Is it possible that Asteroid Bennu is in fact matter that was ejected from earth during the last extinction event, has this been looked in to as a possible reason for having these elements that are essential for life, seems like an obvious conclusion considering it's proximity, orbit and composition.

“200 milligrams”? “Paper clip”? What are you trying to say? The estimated total mass of sample returned is 70 grams (70,000 milligrams!).

@peteb901

3 ай бұрын

70 g. is the overflow on top of TAGSAM. I've seen that the total sample is about 250g.

If there was life on an asteroid within the rock it could likely create an atmosphere within the rock caves.

We cant comprehend infinity, what can happen has happened

@chrislong3938

3 ай бұрын

What will happen has happened... Sorta the same as what you said, but a slightly different perspective.

Sir does scientist found any bacteria in Bennu

@rickkwitkoski1976

3 ай бұрын

No

And then it may not have been part of a ocean world.

The earth is not unique. The earth is just another example of life in the universe

Why that rock debries are black?

Well now we know are future. We blow our selves apart only for our ashes to roam the solar system waiting to be found by a future civilization somewhere.

May may may😂

There are organic molecules throughout the universe. That doesn't mean there was life. "the building blocks of life" is thrown around and people interpret it as meaning there was life. Click-bait

@danielzablotsky2207

3 ай бұрын

True, it does not mean that there was life. That is the required skepticism of the scientific method, which to date, is the best path we have to discovering the OBJECTIVE truths about our universe. Please keep in mind, however, that flawed reasoning to substantiate an opinion, is still flawed. Incomplete data, or insufficient data, when there are SO MANY unknown factors, does not allow us to dismiss a hypothesis out of hand with such scarcity of evidence. Yes, there are people on both sides of the camp of whether there is life in the universe other than our own. Please don’t let your personal or religious or cultural beliefs affect your objective reasoning about the evidence discovered as it is happening. Look up! And have a great day!

1:47 Speaking as a member of the male species, there are better tools than a phillips head screwdriver. Isn't that tool being there sort of like having a cresent wrench on the international space station? It's the worst possible choice and we certianly know better, but there it is. Right in the middle of our space program. Can we all feel properly embarressed and vow to never do this again? Phillips screws are for russian stealth fighters, not American spacecraft.

A water planet orbiting a star that exploded; our Sun and Earth condensed out of what was left

So no breakdown. No analytic info. Only overflow sample displayed and outrageous conclusions based on nothing. Standard operational BS.

@kelly-do2ry

Ай бұрын

Right!!!!

It all seems like speculation to me.

It just means , benue been here

A lot of speculation but not much actual data....

Damn thing came from earth!

Looks like coal to me

Enough with the ‘water’.

Bennu is just Earth poop.

Too much padding and weasel words and not enough info regarding what has been found so far.

Too many "MAY's"!! No new information... not worth subscribing...

@executivesteps

3 ай бұрын

It’s not an “official” NASA site. They just glommed the NASA name.