2014 New Meteor Shower

B-roll for new meteor shower happening May 24, 2014 || Live shot b-roll for new meteor shower May 24, 2014 || Images of Comet 209P/LinearCredit for the images: Carl Hergenrother/University of Arizona/Vatican Observatory. Images taken with the Vatican Observatory 1.8-m VATT telescope by Carl Hergenrother of the University of Arizona on 2014 May 9 UT. || Carl Hergenrother / OSIRIS Rex Investigator, University of Arizona discusses upcoming meteor shower || NASA Scientist, Stefanie Milam speaks about upcoming meteor showers ||

Comet 209P/LINEAR is a short-period comet discovered in 2004.The comet's orbit has been altered by the gravitational perturbations from Jupiter so that the dust left behind in the comet's path will now cross the orbit of Earth. The dust has a chance of appearing in the night sky of May 23-24 as a new meteor shower appearing to radiate from the constellation Camelopardalis.This visualization opens with an overview of the comet orbit, which lies between the orbit of Jupiter and Earth. The camera then zooms-in to a close-up of the comet orbit intesecting the orbit of the Earth on May 23-24, 2014. Note that the comet itself, which is very small and faint, passes behind the Earth and poses no risk of collision. ||

OSIRIS-REx will visit a Near Earth asteroid called Bennu and return with samples that may hold clues to the origins of the solar system and perhaps life itself. It will also investigate the asteroid's chance of impacting Earth in 2182. For the mission, NASA has selected the team led by Principal Investigator Dr. Dante Lauretta from the University of Arizona. NASA GSFC will manage the mission and Lockheed Martin Space Systems will build the spacecraft. Arizona State University will supply the OTES instrument; NASA GSFC will supply the OVIRS instrument; the Canadian Space Agency will supply the OLA instrument; the University of Arizona will supply the OCAMS camera suite; Harvard/MIT will supply the REXIS instrument; and Flight Dynamics will supply the KinetX instrument. ||

THIS PAGE FEATURES OLDER CONTENT FOR OSIRIS-REx. NEWER CONTENT IS AVAILABLE ON THE OSIRIS-REx GALLERY. || An overview video of the OSIRIS-REx mission. || The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft apporaches asteroid Bennu. || Another view of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft approaching asteroid Bennu. || OSIRIS-REx performs remote sensing observations of asteroid Bennu. || OSIRIS-REx deploys its Touch-And-Go Sample Acquisition Mechansim (TAGSAM) instrument. || OSIRIS-REx collects a sample of asteroid Bennu. || Exterior view of OSIRIS-REx collecting a sample of asteroid Bennu with its Touch-And-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism (TAGSAM). ||

What’s the best way get a sample of an asteroid? Play tag with it! That’s the plan for OSIRIS-REx, a NASA spacecraft that will approach the asteroid Bennu in 2018. The collection will be done with an instrument on board called the Touch-And-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism, or, TAGSAM. Learn how it works in this video. || "Playing Tag With an Asteroid" is a video demonstrating how OSIRIS-REx will use it's TAGSAM instrument to get a sample of the asteroid Bennu.For complete transcript, click here. ||