{"id":3819,"date":"2020-10-08T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T20:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/astronomy-and-planetary-science\/?p=3819"},"modified":"2020-10-30T13:38:08","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T20:38:08","slug":"nau-planetary-astronomer-co-authors-studies-of-asteroid-bennu-as-member-of-nasas-osiris-rex-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/nau-planetary-astronomer-co-authors-studies-of-asteroid-bennu-as-member-of-nasas-osiris-rex-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"NAU planetary astronomer co-authors studies of asteroid Bennu as member of NASA\u2019s OSIRIS-REx mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7930\" src=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/medium_large-640x360-1-600x338.png\" alt=\"Spacecraft collecting sample\" width=\"501\" height=\"286\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Collecting a Sample of Bennu: Artist\u2019s conception of NASA\u2019s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collecting a sample from the asteroid Bennu. Credit: NASA\/Goddard\/University of Arizona<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe spacecraft has been observing the asteroid for nearly two years now,\u201d said <strong>Joshua Emery<\/strong>, associate professor in NAU\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/\">Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science<\/a> and a member of the OSIRIS-REx science team. \u201cBennu has turned out to be a fascinating small asteroid and has given us many surprises.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/nau-research\/asteroid-bennu\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Collecting a Sample of Bennu: Artist\u2019s conception of NASA\u2019s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collecting a sample from the asteroid Bennu. Credit: NASA\/Goddard\/University of Arizona \u201cThe spacecraft has been observing the asteroid for nearly two years now,\u201d said Joshua Emery, associate professor in NAU\u2019s Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science and a member of the OSIRIS-REx [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[188,189],"class_list":["post-3819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy-and-planetary-science","tag-benu","tag-osiris-rex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3819","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=3819"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3823,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3819\/revisions\/3823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}