SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 09/23/2023 – Path of Osiris delivery

SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 09/23/2023

OSIRIS-REX RETURN CAPSULE–NAKED-EYE VISIBILITY? This weekend, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will fly by Earth and drop off a sample of asteroid Bennu for researchers to the study. The return capsule will enter Earth’s atmosphere on Sunday morning, Sept. 24, at 7:42 a.m. PDT. Traveling about 27,650 mph, it will streak across Nevada before parachuting to Earth in the Utah desert.

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