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Harold Connolly Jr.

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
428 total appearances

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Secrets of Asteroid Bennu with Harold Connolly Jr.

You need energy.

StarTalk Radio
Secrets of Asteroid Bennu with Harold Connolly Jr.

But everybody forgets that to get that, what you need is a planet.

StarTalk Radio
Secrets of Asteroid Bennu with Harold Connolly Jr.

and understanding how planets are formed and the baseline geology that then the final baseline below geology, the physics can all play into and then work with the astronomers, the remote sensors, the biologists to put our various hypothesis together to test them with our knowledge in a big picture scope.

StarTalk Radio
Secrets of Asteroid Bennu with Harold Connolly Jr.

Right, yeah.

StarTalk Radio
Secrets of Asteroid Bennu with Harold Connolly Jr.

So NASA archives about 70% of the sample.

StarTalk Radio
Secrets of Asteroid Bennu with Harold Connolly Jr.

The sample team, analysis team, doesn't get more than a very small amount of the total sample.

StarTalk Radio
Secrets of Asteroid Bennu with Harold Connolly Jr.

And then we had it exclusively for a two-year period.

StarTalk Radio
Secrets of Asteroid Bennu with Harold Connolly Jr.

And then the community at large, scientists at large, begin to apply for samples at Johnson Space Center.

StarTalk Radio
Secrets of Asteroid Bennu with Harold Connolly Jr.

They can look up samples in the catalog.

StarTalk Radio
Secrets of Asteroid Bennu with Harold Connolly Jr.

And then they're all currently, those people who have samples from around the world are...

StarTalk Radio
Secrets of Asteroid Bennu with Harold Connolly Jr.

that are not part of the science team for OSIRIS-REx, our team at Global 2, are analyzing the sample as we speak.

StarTalk Radio
Secrets of Asteroid Bennu with Harold Connolly Jr.

And several papers have already been submitted to the scientific journal to talk about their findings in print.

StarTalk Radio
Secrets of Asteroid Bennu with Harold Connolly Jr.

And yeah, it's incredible.

StarTalk Radio
Secrets of Asteroid Bennu with Harold Connolly Jr.

And that's how science works.

StarTalk Radio
Secrets of Asteroid Bennu with Harold Connolly Jr.

Science works.

StarTalk Radio
Secrets of Asteroid Bennu with Harold Connolly Jr.

Our government shared sample with the Japanese government as well.

StarTalk Radio
Secrets of Asteroid Bennu with Harold Connolly Jr.

And our Japanese colleague, meaning OSIRIS-REx sample, Hayabusa sample were shared.

StarTalk Radio
Secrets of Asteroid Bennu with Harold Connolly Jr.

And each nation is also looking at their samples as well.

StarTalk Radio
Secrets of Asteroid Bennu with Harold Connolly Jr.

So it's great.

StarTalk Radio
Secrets of Asteroid Bennu with Harold Connolly Jr.

Yeah, first let me say thank you very much for the invitation and to join you both.