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June 9, 2011 01:08 pm PDT
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NASA Osiris: Looking for life with the god of death
It's difficult for Dante Lauretta to describe what he's hoping to find on asteroid 1999 RQ36. But there's a good reason for that. "We don't exactly know what we'll find until we get there," he says. "But we're looking for really carbon-rich viable material that normally doesn't survive passage to the surface of the Earth on a meteorite. We're looking for things that humans haven't ever seen." Lauretta is the deputy principal investigator for NASA's recently announced OSIRIS-REx mission. It's an appropriately cinematic name for what he and his colleagues are trying to do. Namely, they're hoping to find the origins of life on Earth in space....
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