Jake and Anthony are joined by Dante Lauretta, Principal Investigator of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, and Professor of Planetary Science at the University of Arizona, to talk about—take a guess!—returning and studying pristine samples from Bennu.

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• Episode 195 - Dirtiest Thing in the Cleanroom (with Dante Lauretta) - YouTube
• Dante Lauretta | Lunar and Planetary Laboratory & Department of Planetary Sciences | The University of Arizona
• NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission to Asteroid Bennu
• Abundant ammonia and nitrogen-rich soluble organic matter in samples from asteroid (101955) Bennu | Nature Astronomy
• An evaporite sequence from ancient brine recorded in Bennu samples | Nature
• Contamination monitoring of the OSIRIS-REx ISO5 asteroid sample cleanroom - NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
• NASA’s Asteroid Bennu Sample Reveals Mix of Life’s Ingredients - NASA
• Surprising Phosphate Finding in NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample - NASA
• NASA’s Bennu Asteroid Sample Contains Carbon, Water - NASA
• NASA’s First Asteroid Sample Has Landed, Now Secure in Clean Room - NASA
• OSIRIS-APEX - NASA Science
• NASA Asteroid Sampling Mission Renamed OSIRIS-APEX for New Journey - NASA

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