NASA Just Arrived at an Asteroid! | SciShow News
OSIRIS-REx finally entered orbit around the asteroid Bennu this week and new research has found an old recipe for RNA. SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Alex Hackman, Andrew Finley Brenan, Lazarus G, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.asteroidmission.org/ https://www.asteroidmission.org/?latest-news=nasas-osiris-rex-begins-asteroid-operations-campaign https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/osiris-rex-begins-earth-trojan-asteroid-search http://www.asteroidmission.org/?latest-news=osiris-rex-asteroid-search-tests-instruments-science-team https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/778/osiris-rex-arrives-at-bennu/ http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/11/26/1814367115 https://www.eurekalert.org/emb_releases/2018-12/hu-lha112718.php https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/inosine https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959437X14000811 ------ Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bennu_Orbit.png https://www.asteroidmission.org/20181203_mapcam/ https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12716 https://www.asteroidmission.org/?attachment_id=2337#main https://www.asteroidmission.org/?attachment_id=7915#main https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12318 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4482 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20255 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4482 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/blue-double-helix-models-on-background-gm547502174-98951201 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Adenine.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Guanin.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Uracil.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cytosine_chemical_structure.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Inosin.svg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/genetic-dna-sequence-gm1012587164-272758050 http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2007/02/True-colour_image_of_Mars_seen_by_OSIRIS https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OSIRIS-REx_spacecraft.png
