{"id":2803,"date":"2019-02-07T11:55:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T18:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/astronomy-and-planetary-science\/?p=2803"},"modified":"2020-12-01T12:24:07","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T19:24:07","slug":"nau-planetary-scientist-talks-about-her-work-with-nasa-studying-asteroid-bennu-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/nau-planetary-scientist-talks-about-her-work-with-nasa-studying-asteroid-bennu-video\/","title":{"rendered":"NAU planetary scientist talks about her work with NASA studying asteroid Bennu (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Feb. 7, 2019<\/p>\n<p>What can the asteroid Bennu tell us about the universe and its origins? Assistant astronomy professor <strong>Cristina Thomas<\/strong> talked to NAU-TV about her experience as a team member of NASA\u2019s OSIRIS REx mission, which landed on the asteroid late last year and is collecting samples of regolith, or loose surface material, which scientists think may have answers about the earliest history in the solar system.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas\u2019 research focuses on asteroids and near-Earth projects; she recently completed a ground-based spectral survey of several families of asteroids using NASA\u2019s Infrared Telescope Facility and SOAR telescopes.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-vZE2k8HJJg?feature=oembed\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nau.edu\/cristina-thomas-bennu\/#.XTC9r3t7mUl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NAU planetary scientist talks about her work with NASA studying asteroid Bennu (VIDEO)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 7, 2019 What can the asteroid Bennu tell us about the universe and its origins? Assistant astronomy professor Cristina Thomas talked to NAU-TV about her experience as a team member of NASA\u2019s OSIRIS REx mission, which landed on the asteroid late last year and is collecting samples of regolith, or loose surface material, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[178],"class_list":["post-2803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy-and-planetary-science","tag-viabookmarklet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2803"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3858,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803\/revisions\/3858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}