{"id":7341,"date":"2023-09-25T07:46:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T02:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/sir-brian-may-immensely-proud-to-be-part-of-osiris-rex-asteroid-sample-team-ents-arts-news\/"},"modified":"2023-09-25T07:46:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T02:16:30","slug":"sir-brian-may-immensely-proud-to-be-part-of-osiris-rex-asteroid-sample-team-ents-arts-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/sir-brian-may-immensely-proud-to-be-part-of-osiris-rex-asteroid-sample-team-ents-arts-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Brian May ‘immensely proud’ to be part of Osiris-Rex asteroid sample team | Ents & Arts News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sir Brian May has said he is “immensely proud” to be part of the team who successfully collected NASA’s first asteroid samples from deep space.<\/p>\n

A capsule containing around 250g of rocks and dust collected from asteroid Bennu touched down in the Utah desert near Salt Lake City on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the day, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the sample capsule around 63,000 miles out during a flyby of Earth.<\/p>\n

Queen guitarist and astrophysicist Sir Brian aided the mission by helping to identify where Osiris-Rex could grab a sample from the asteroid.<\/p>\n

Read more:
NASA probe returns with rock samples from asteroid – as it happened
Capsule contained around 250g of rocks and dust collected from asteroid<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a message of support shown on NASA TV, Sir Brian said: “Hello Nasa folks, space fans, asteroid aficionados, this is Brian May of Queen but also I’m immensely proud to be a team member of Osiris-Rex.<\/p>\n

“I can’t be with you today, I wish I could, I’m rehearsing for a Queen tour, but my heart is there with you as this precious sample is recovered.<\/p>\n

“Happy sample return day and congratulations to all who worked so incredibly hard on this mission.”<\/p>\n

Read more:<\/strong>
Closest-ever photo of massive asteroid Bennu
NASA taking ‘concrete action’ to explore UFOs<\/strong><\/p>\n

The rocker particularly praised his “dear friend” Dante Lauretta, who he created the book Bennu 3-D: Anatomy of an Asteroid with, which is a 3D atlas of the asteroid.<\/p>\n

The sample is the US space agency’s first mission to collect a sample from an asteroid and the first by any agency since 2020.<\/p>\n

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A quarter of the sample will be given to a group of more than 200 people from 38 globally distributed institutions, including a team of scientists from the University of Manchester and the Natural History Museum.<\/p>\n

Asteroid Bennu is a 4.5-billion-year-old remnant of our early solar system and scientists believe it can help shed light on how planets formed and evolved.<\/p>\n

Experts say the carbon-rich, near-Earth asteroid serves as a time capsule from the earliest history of the solar system.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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