9780816551767-0816551766-Bennu 3-D: Anatomy of an Asteroid

Bennu 3-D: Anatomy of an Asteroid

ISBN-13: 9780816551767
ISBN-10: 0816551766
Author: Brian May, Kenneth S. Coles, Dante S. Lauretta, Carina A. Bennett, Claudia Manzoni, Catherine W. V. Wolner
Publication date: 2023
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Format: Hardcover 208 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780816551767
ISBN-10: 0816551766
Author: Brian May, Kenneth S. Coles, Dante S. Lauretta, Carina A. Bennett, Claudia Manzoni, Catherine W. V. Wolner
Publication date: 2023
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Format: Hardcover 208 pages

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Bennu 3-D: Anatomy of an Asteroid (ISBN-13: 9780816551767 and ISBN-10: 0816551766), written by authors Brian May, Kenneth S. Coles, Dante S. Lauretta, Carina A. Bennett, Claudia Manzoni, Catherine W. V. Wolner, was published by University of Arizona Press in 2023. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Bennu 3-D: Anatomy of an Asteroid (Hardcover, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $4.72.

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Bennu, named for the ancient Egyptian phoenix, was the chosen destination of OSIRIS-REx, NASA's premier mission of asteroid exploration, launched in 2016. Study of the asteroid is important in safeguarding the future of planet Earth, but Bennu is also a time capsule from the dawn of our Solar System, holding secrets over four-and-a-half billion years old about the origin of life and Earth as a habitable planet.



In 2020 the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully landed on the surface of Bennu and collected pristine asteroid material for delivery to Earth in September 2023. Scientific studies of the samples, along with data collected during the rendezvous, promise to help find answers to some of humanity's deepest questions: Where did we come from? What is our destiny in space?



This book, the world's first complete (and stereoscopic) atlas of an asteroid, is the result of a unique collaboration between OSIRIS-REx mission leader Dante Lauretta and Brian May's London Stereoscopic Company. Lauretta's colleagues include Carina Bennett, Kenneth Coles, and Cat Wolner, as well as Brian May and Claudia Manzoni, who became part of the ultimately successful effort to find a safe landing site for sampling. The text details the data collected by the mission so far, and the stereo images have been meticulously created by Manzoni and May from original images collected by the OSIRIS-REx cameras.

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