When OSIRIS-REx returns its asteroid samples to Earth Sept. 24, two University of Arizona researchers will be among the first to examine the precious material.
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NASA awarded nearly $3 million to the University of Arizona Kuiper Materials Imaging and Characterization Facility to support OSIRIS-REx sample science and much more.
Strange, dark-veined meteorites rained down on Earth when a fireball exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia; now, planetary scientists have discovered a possible source: a mile-and-a-half-long near-Earth a
In a new paper published in the Planetary Science Journal, University of Arizona scientists identified an asteroid named 1998 OR2 as one potential source of shock-darkened meteorites.