Wednesday, 19 June 2019

NASA probe enters the tightest orbit ever around a planetary object

Shot of the asteroid Bennu during an earlier flyby

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to the asteroid Bennu has already brought about a series of landmark moments for space exploration, not least of which is the fact that the rock currently stands as the smallest object ever orbited by a spacecraft. Not content with that, mission control has moved the probe into tighter and tighter loops around the asteroid, now setting a new record for the closest ever orbit of a planetary body.

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from New Atlas (Gizmag) http://bit.ly/2RsQ5Dp

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