Amazing Meteor Landing

[Lkristians]

Incredible. NASA just landed on the meteor. We should be getting some kind of photos soon!

Touchdown and back up! Samples taken.

[815C]

Just think of the math involved in the trajectory of that space craft!

[Methos1979]

Is Bruce Willis and his crew drilling yet?!?

[Kerbie]

I saw that too. Landing on asteroids and meteors must be fun!

[M19]

Has anyone seen what they estimate the gravity on that little bugger to be? 0.001G?

[KevWind]

Originally Posted by M19

Has anyone seen what they estimate the gravity on that little bugger to be? 0.001G?

I'm guessing that means that if you jump around playing guitar on stage you may not land back on the stage

[mc1]

That little-asteroid-that-could has a name, and it's Bennu!



https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/bennu-top-ten

It says on that page that if Bennu misses us this time it has another chance next century. Love that keep trying spirit!

Originally Posted by M19

Has anyone seen what they estimate the gravity on that little bugger to be? 0.001G?

Just enough to keep it together. Wikipedia tells us its equatorial surface gravity is 6 micro-g. Which doesn't mean a lot to me. From my 45 second search it would appear that 10 micro-g is roughly the gravity of Earth from 6,000,000 kilometres away. So the rule is no jumping, kids. Ok?

It all kind of makes me think that nature doesn't really abhor a vacuum. I've been thinking about that a lot lately, should probably fill that void and turn it into a song.

[bsman]

Originally Posted by Lkristians

Incredible. NASA just landed on the meteor. We should be getting some kind of photos soon!

Touchdown and back up! Samples taken.

Asteroid - just a little clarification: Anything floating up there and not captured by the Earth's gravity is an asteroid or comet. Only if/when it enters the atmosphere does it become a meteoroid - known as a meteor if (as it does normally) it burns up during descent and as a meteorite in the rare instance a portion survives to impact.

Class over - Carry on!

[jpd]

Bennu is now claimed by the United States

[robj144]

Originally Posted by KevWind

I'm guessing that means that if you jump around playing guitar on stage you may not land back on the stage

Just did a quick calculation for the escape velocity on the asteroid. If you can jump to a height of 0.89 mm or 0.04 inches on Earth, you'll jump off the asteroid into space never to return to the asteroid. Pretty sure some insects could do that.

[Dru Edwards]

Originally Posted by jpd

Bennu is now claimed by the United States

lol.

So cool. Wasn't there another comet/asteroid landing a couple of years ago? Perhaps by another country?

[jpd]

Originally Posted by Dru Edwards

lol.

So cool. Wasn't there another comet/asteroid landing a couple of years ago? Perhaps by another country?

China?...............

[mc1]

Originally Posted by jpd

China?...............

Japan.....

[M19]

6 micro G? That's .000006 G! Don't use the diving board at the Hotel swimming pool!

[BrunoBlack]

Good show about this last night on PBS NOVA
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/articl...oid-touchdown/