Astronomy Picture of the Day - Descending Toward Asteroid Bennu

APOD.NASA.gov ^ | 12 Oct, 2020 | Video Credit: NASA, OSIRIS-REx, NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio; Data: NASA, U. Arizona, CSA,

[Jamestown1630]

It happens to me all the time - you hit a wrong key somehow, and everything gets screwed-up - or disappears.

[Pontiac]

Well thanks

Can’t imagine when that happened.

[Repeal The 17th]

now you got it

[minnesota_bound]

How the earth was formed bit by bit. Tiny grains become pebbles become rocks become boulders till earth sized etc. Add some heat and you got a planet.

[TigersEye]

I thought the theory was that the heat came first. Hot radioactive gasses, coalescing into radioactive particles, coalescing into molten masses, coalescing into one large molten orb which then cooled on the surface into rock with a molten interior.

[blueunicorn6]

Oh, like a Snipe Hunt.

[The MAGA-Deplorian]

Looks like Oklahoma.

[Paul R.]

What a remarkable image. This is obviously not a “body” that one can just push or lasso and drag off somewhere to be mined...

Also, each piece looks like it had a violent creation. If the asteroids mostly came from a shattered planet, it REALLY shattered.

Further... Note all the sharp edges. This surface looks (relatively) ...young???

[Yardstick]

Very cool and the video is worth a look too.