{"id":28094,"date":"2026-09-24T00:50:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=28094"},"modified":"2025-12-17T12:05:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T17:05:48","slug":"osiris-rex-dropped-off-its-asteroid-canister-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=28094","title":{"rendered":"OSIRIS-REx Dropped off its Asteroid Canister in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>OSIRIS-REx Dropped off its Asteroid Canister in 2023. <\/strong>The space craft had lifted off on September 26, 2016.\u00a0 The unmanned space project\u00a0<strong>O<\/strong>rigins,\u00a0<strong>S<\/strong>pectral\u00a0<strong>I<\/strong>nterpretation,\u00a0<strong>R<\/strong>esource\u00a0<strong>I<\/strong>dentification, and\u00a0<strong>S<\/strong>ecurity \u2013\u00a0<strong>R<\/strong>egolith\u00a0<strong>Ex<\/strong>plorer traveled 200 million miles to the asteroid 101955 Bennu on December 3, 2018. Scientists had expected Bennu to be smooth and rather geographically featureless. Instead Bennu was rocky and mountainous. Eventually scientists found a spot for\u00a0<strong>OSIRIS-REx<\/strong>\u00a0to land, and it touched down on a crater on October 20, 2020. Then it began collecting surface material. After it had collected about two cups of material, it departed Bennu on May 10, 2021. As\u00a0<strong>OSIRIS-REx\u00a0<\/strong>again traveled 200 million miles and approached earth on September 24, 2023, it ejected the sample. The sample-filled canister landed safely, via parachutes, in Utah. Then <strong>OSIRIS-REx<\/strong>\u00a0became\u00a0<strong>OSIRIS-APEX<\/strong>\u00a0and will continue its trip in space to visit 99942 Apophis in April 2029.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OSIRIS-REx Dropped off its Asteroid Canister in 2023. The space craft had lifted off on September 26, 2016.\u00a0 The unmanned space project\u00a0Origins,\u00a0Spectral\u00a0Interpretation,\u00a0Resource\u00a0Identification, and\u00a0Security \u2013\u00a0Regolith\u00a0Explorer traveled 200 million miles to the asteroid 101955 Bennu on December 3, 2018. Scientists had expected Bennu to be smooth and rather geographically featureless. Instead Bennu was rocky and mountainous. Eventually <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=28094' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28095,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28094\/revisions\/28095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}