Why NASA Punched an Asteroid

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Where did life come from? It’s one of the biggest questions humans have ever asked - and the answer might be locked in ancient space rocks that were around before life began. To find out, NASA pulled off one of its most ambitious missions ever, landing on an asteroid and sending a rock sample back to Earth. Today, we’re going to take a look at what it brought back.
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@Doc_Fartens 4 месяца назад

"Space rocks are awesome." You might even say that space...Rocks.

@Andy_Babb 4 месяца назад

Well played, sir. Well played. 😂

@custos3249 4 месяца назад

Very wry. One could say, wryan.

@gngs0419 3 месяца назад

Badum tssssssssss

@ericcarabetta1161 4 месяца назад

As someone who’s completely math illiterate, it just blows me away how these people are able to calculate and time the trajectories for things millions of miles away. Might as well be magic.

@lifesbutastumble 4 месяца назад

Pretty sure these things will be done using computers these days lol

@darkphantom_01 4 месяца назад

U r not alone

@miriamrosemary9110 4 месяца назад

@@lifesbutastumble Computers are like magic and they were made by people using math - so still a fitting statement!

@lifesbutastumble 4 месяца назад

Of course the statement is fitting, but it's also worded in a way that the OP seems to think that people are literally doing the maths in their head lol. @@miriamrosemary9110

@shawnthompson8016 4 месяца назад

It’s always such a treat getting to hear an expert talk about something they’re passionate about and have dedicated their lives to understanding. I could listen to Tim talk about space rocks for hours!

@daugarten 4 месяца назад

Seems like you’d be a huge fan of the Ologies podcast 😉

@hannayoung9657 4 месяца назад

My friend named an asteroid after me, sadly I collided and got stuck into another asteroid. It was part of her schooling to follow one.

@Andy_Babb 4 месяца назад

That’s so cool. I kinda think it’s even cooler that yours got stuck into another one. Maybe they’ll form a planet one day!

@lexburns9036 4 месяца назад

Alien space rock shaped like Texas? Must’ve entered the galaxy through the transfer portal🤘🏾😂

@besmart 4 месяца назад

OSIRIS-REx was *all gas no brakes* 🤘

@raphmaster23 4 месяца назад

Yee yee! @@besmart

@NotSoMuchFrankly 4 месяца назад

_Alien space rock shaped like Texas?_ Yes, otherwise known as...Texas.

@smugfei6682 4 месяца назад

it looks more like Burundi to me, but I can see the resemblance to Texas as well.

@Andy_Babb 4 месяца назад

I thought I was the only one that noticed!

@fios4528 4 месяца назад

I love how at 5:07 he pauses and says "does live" instead of "will live" implying there is some wiggle room for future life forms

@Corpsman01 4 месяца назад

Holding that rock must have been awesome. A rock older than Earth itself! Amazing!

@Andy_Babb 4 месяца назад

A rock older than earth, but shaped like Texas lol

@SomethingAbtScience 4 месяца назад

Hi smart people!

@GabAguy 4 месяца назад

Wait 2 minutes ago? I'm lucky

@iambiggus 4 месяца назад

@Alec_Reaper 4 месяца назад

Sorry I'm stupid

@sebastianchevalier1738 4 месяца назад

I'm smart on Tuesdays

@ryangraf2542 4 месяца назад

Not me

@Proxtor 4 месяца назад

I would name the astroid "Granola", cause its a mix of everything and looks like it

@xpndblhero5170 Месяц назад

Now I want to go take a bite of it.... 😂

@NewMessage 4 месяца назад

Crowdsourced asteroid names? We're due for a 'Rocky McRockface', I guess.

@miroslavcibula6867 4 месяца назад

I vote for that!

@fep_ptcp883 4 месяца назад

I thought you would talk about the Dart mission, Joe. Smacking a punch into an asteroid to calculate how much we can deflect them if needed...

@marcoflumino 4 месяца назад

That is alright Punching! not smacking!

@iambiggus 4 месяца назад

I wonder if they found that meteorite in Texas?

@Rich79 4 месяца назад

May be idk

@daniel_77. 4 месяца назад

universal coincidence lol

@ArchFundy 4 месяца назад

That's a red state. They would deny its existence or want to deport it.

@professorx3060 4 месяца назад

Everything can look like Texas if you look long enough at it 😅

@angelogodwinuy80 4 месяца назад

If you're an avid fan of the channel I just want to say "It's okay to be Smart".

@roguedogx 4 месяца назад

0:13 that's just insane. -it's crazy how old it is -it's crazy that it's on earth -it's crazy that you are holding it (all in a good way of course)

@Torok.Agoston 4 месяца назад

Congratulations on 5 million subscribers very soon! :)

@caro748 4 месяца назад

Just subscribed thanks to your comment :)

@PorchPotatoMike 4 месяца назад

Osiris-Rex sure seems like a backronym.

@mariofix 4 месяца назад

I was waiting for these videos, thank you!!!

@SilverSlayer 4 месяца назад

🎉🎉🎉 I legit think I was your 5 millionth subscriber.. AS SOON as I clicked subscribe it turned to 5 million! Not exaggerating it was the same second! That felt really cool haha to prove.. it’s 1:47 EST on Jan. 27th you can probably verify it was me from social blade stats right now 😎

@icinnalatte 4 месяца назад

excellent, some progress on the main storyline! Incredible :3

@tomdunn3914 4 месяца назад

I really enjoyed hearing about Benu and the jets.

@HuzaifaAnsari1080 4 месяца назад

Holding something older than earth on earth 😮..That is awesome..

@aMEWzed 4 месяца назад

Great video! Thanks.

@gilles466 4 месяца назад

Amazing stuff as always! I'm interested in what the research on the ingredients for life brings us

@KarmaCadet 4 месяца назад

amazing content! thank you for this!

@jacksrandomadventures2769 4 месяца назад

im glad he doesnt forget to mention the narwhals

@chaal_upaa 4 месяца назад

This is one of the coolest things I’ve seen. Tim McCoy’s enthusiasm is infectious. Thanks for this video!

@ChrisPattisonCosmo 3 месяца назад

I am very jealous you got to see these! Great video

@muhammedtahasancar486 4 месяца назад

love your content

@BioniclesaurKing4t2 4 месяца назад

I've been wondering about the progress of this mission since the PBS special on its "landing" aired. And in regards to "could a planet like ours exist in another solar system?", I'm inclined to believe that planets like ours probably only exist here because of Jupiter's early hungry antics, so it's Jupiters we should be looking for, otherwise we'll only find giant super-Earths.

@windmill9998 4 месяца назад

fun how u guys uploaded this today right after i went down a many-hour-long Wikipedia-and-more "rabbit hole" of space stuff and geology xD)) love this stuff, please keep it up :)))

@ibrahimswiss8714 4 месяца назад

Great video thank you

@edgeeffect 4 месяца назад

It'd be so cool to work for "The NASA Office of Contrived Acronyms" ;)

@ragesh29 4 месяца назад

Better known as NOCA… 😅😅

@SolaceEasy 4 месяца назад

I live near Tucson Arizona and have multiple people working on this mission. The name comes from the group organizing the mission most typically. It's not from NASA, typically.

@AppNasty 4 месяца назад

Come on 5 million subs! Been following since there was a few 100k.

@AwareOCE 4 месяца назад

This guy is incredible, Id love to have a conversation with him about his study and how he came to the idea to go hunt asteroid fragments for himself. Awesome video!

@ocelot219 4 месяца назад

Univers feedback mechanism, from rock to "conscious" life, nice one

@mujigikabugi3927 4 месяца назад

"Earth is a perfectly good planet with annoying biological scum covering it" What a perfect definition especially during these days

@SpaceflightSimulator 4 месяца назад

It has multiple meanings, absolutely!

@Agent-57 4 месяца назад

Well without life Earth is basically just like any other planet out of the nigh infinite planets in the universe. So you are factually wrong.

@NotSoMuchFrankly 4 месяца назад

These days? You mean since we came down from the trees?

@glennbabic5954 4 месяца назад

If you slice open an iron meteorite, there is no contamination inside. It's just an excuse for a space mission!

@NotSoMuchFrankly 4 месяца назад

@@glennbabic5954 Since the iron is very reactive, it can be exposed to a lot of things w/in weeks or days as was mentioned. But also, the outside is immediately compromised and cracks and fissures may not allow you to get a pristine sample even on the inside. In space, you can get a better determinant of the proportions of materials inside because you don't have to slice off the heterogenous parts on the outside.

@Pottery4Life 4 месяца назад

Thank you.

@nicksamek12 4 месяца назад

Also, I love Tim's pointer-wand!

@krateskim4169 4 месяца назад

A very good video

@skittlesryan7862 4 месяца назад

Did anyone else thing that chunk of space rock in the beginning looked a little like the state of Texas

@colinleat8309 4 месяца назад

I'm glad they finally got the lid off!

@markwentz8332 4 месяца назад

knocking on 5 million subs, nice!

@GhostNinja0007 4 месяца назад

3:48 First thing I noticed, That rock is shaped oddly like Texas🤣

@moonshoes11 4 месяца назад

Same.

@kismet8010 4 месяца назад

I wish I could love anything as much as Tim loves rocks.

@monosodiumglutemate8216 4 месяца назад

I'd call the asteroid either Leuleu, Poyppy, or Shlumpy. Nicknames of my kids.

@jnall5904 4 месяца назад

How do you even pronounce that second name

@SaugotChowdhury 4 месяца назад

That chunk of rock in the beginning, looks like a map of Texas

@Deltakitty32780 3 месяца назад

So awesome😊

@avenged7peep958 4 месяца назад

It's absolutely incredible what humans are able to do

@skatalyst00 4 месяца назад

When he mentions that the sample gathered contains all the elements we find on earth, it's wild to think that, after billions of years of evolution, life on earth has been able to mine, refine and develop those elements into advanced machines that can get that sample, just so that we can essentially go back to the beginning in order to understand what put it all in motion in the first place. It's a little zen, no? And it strongly confirms what I think is the most powerful, and even the most spiritual, statement about human existence, from the late great Carl Sagan: We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. (As the kids say today, mic drop!!)

@ArnoldsKtm 4 месяца назад

the way we can send out a robot and make it do all that complex stuff is simply astonishing.

@mixiekins 4 месяца назад

My man McCoy rockin that wizard wand 🤘

@MORE4SP 2 месяца назад

So cool!

@bwedesign 4 месяца назад

I guess there's no 10-second-rule for falling meteorites.

@takingbacktheplanet 4 месяца назад

amazing stuff, joe! also incredible they were able to orbit a satellite under the asteroid's own power (gravity) if i understood correctly! wow! :)

@carlsoll 4 месяца назад

3:59 THAT looks DiGiTaL 😮

@jackeysmith19 4 месяца назад

Wow this is so cool

@CaoticoFanegasO_o 3 месяца назад

Well, many things to say. First of all, hire this Ted guy. He's so passionate about his trade, it would be a shame to spare all he has to teach. I don't know if he would be comfy just looking to the cold, glassy eye of a camera, but he'd have a ton of great ideas for a script (well, or whatever you may call several bunches of scripts). Second, nice coverage of the Bennu sample pod screw trouble. It might be easy to loosen a couple of screws, but it's not easy to loosen them while making sure that not even a speck of metal from the threads is going to contaminate the sample. You didn't have to say it like that, you just left the clues so anyone could figure it out. And last but not least, Osiris is not done! Renamed as Osiris-Apex is going to Apophis!

@heydontjudge 2 месяца назад

10/10 video, cool science machine

@DunwellAntwi 4 месяца назад

I've never been tempted to steal a rock than now.

@Ryak1234 4 месяца назад

Does solar wind erode asteroids in some way?

@GreenPoint_one 4 месяца назад

I guess. Its roasted ond frozen all the time they come into light or shadow

@donkeyhobo34 4 месяца назад

I'm vegan

@GreenPoint_one 4 месяца назад

@@donkeyhobo34 veganism is eroding too. You dont get nutrients like you need :3

@MS-qx9uw 4 месяца назад

It does in a sense, the irradiation, light pressure,heat, and surface level helium buildup does lead to aging of the surface. But get just a bit below the surface and it’s practically untouched

@mattkuhn6634 4 месяца назад

1:18 Honestly I expected him to say that the amazing thing about that rock was how much it resembles the state of Texas as drawn by a 5 year-old.

@williamhardee8863 4 месяца назад

I originally read this as, “Why NASA Punched an Astronaut,”.

@mattduncil 4 месяца назад

I’m curious about the stick “wand” the scientists used.

@enderstarpg6921 4 месяца назад

Cool video, but I am left with one question. How can they be sure that the Probe itself didn't contaminate the sample? Like if the amino acid building block were to be detected, how would we tell if it truly came from the rock and not something that got on the Probe during launch or transportation?

@foxbat51 4 месяца назад

Next they need to upper cut a comet.

@shaunmodipane1 4 месяца назад

Nasa: "it was more like a raspberry rather than a punch."

@takenname8053 4 месяца назад

I would name an asteroid Toph

@simplystreaming3282 4 месяца назад

Wouldn't the materials used to collect these samples be contaminated as it was made in Earth?

@kn0bhe4d 4 месяца назад

Anything that's sent into space has strict requirements when it's being built to limit contamination. And there are various levels to it as well; satellites will not need as much contamination, but anything that's sent to Mars let's say needs to have very strict requirements so as to not contaminate Mars with Earth biology. I would imagine the same sort of precautions were taken for this mission.

@simplystreaming3282 4 месяца назад

@@kn0bhe4d but there could be microbes that possibly couldn't be eliminated , there is also the risk of contamination while launching ryt

@kn0bhe4d 4 месяца назад

@@simplystreaming3282 Yeah there's no absolute guarantee, we can only take the maximum precautions that we can.

@jamesmnguyen 4 месяца назад

I think they also used a special metal for the capsule/capturing system so they can easily tell what is rock and what is spaceprobe.

@ExistenceUniversity 4 месяца назад

2:20 It is not just adding material, it is doing for with force. Not all the clumps are gently falling into the mass center, some are coming in hot.

@eistheguy3789 4 месяца назад

ONE PUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNCHHHH

@Joe-bs9dj 4 месяца назад

Love that space bro

@hornetthehivewing6265 4 месяца назад

I'm a big fan of outer space, and have been for as long as I can remember. It's so intriguing!

@Wolf950 4 месяца назад

Ahh, yes. The machine. Thermo Fisher. Of course. I swear they damn near have a monopoly.

@Clarence_Mukabi 4 месяца назад

❤ This channel

@Andy_Babb 4 месяца назад

1:22 It’s the state of Texas!

@rdapigleo 4 месяца назад

Keeping with the NASA punched an asteroid, I’d like to call one “Rocky” 😂

@Taranoku 4 месяца назад

so close to 5M subs!

@karinaabramchuk3815 2 месяца назад

Aesthetic ✨️ love the transparent look

@MrBlackSatellite 4 месяца назад

Hi Joe, Smart people here!👋

@Rosie-And-Friends 4 месяца назад

How amazing to be holding something that came from space!

@TheNexusChan Месяц назад

Im glad the asteroids don't have feelings after getting punched

@clipsdaily101 4 месяца назад

imagine being that asteroid and a giant earth bug lands on you and takes a bite then leaves

@michaelmeyers4843 4 месяца назад

Joe just casually flexes "Oh yeah I got invited to come look at Bennu samples, no biggie"

@Rubrickety 4 месяца назад

I don't know what I would name an asteroid, but my new band is definitely goind to be called You, Me and the Narwhals.

@TarEcthelion 4 месяца назад

These are like Long Exposure Photos of space that you can hold on your hands.

@starforge5663 4 месяца назад

Joe, the ending of video made me gut from my reclining gaming chair, you couldn't have made it just a little bit longer? lol (that was joke btw) and I would name an asteroid mugge because its one of many origins of why we call mugs, mugs. Perhaps in a mug there will be space dust and tell us a thing or 2 about our soler system.

@nightblade628 4 месяца назад

This rocks!

@StrotherPitzke 4 месяца назад

I would name an asteroid, “Boaty McBoatFace.”

@munkhboldbaatar-dx2ku 4 месяца назад

So close to 5 mil🎉🎉🎉

@produde33 4 месяца назад

What a time to live in!

@Vesperitis 4 месяца назад

Who wouldn’t want to punch an asteroid?!

@Narcissus833 4 месяца назад

On the asteroid naming front, has anyone done ‘Rocky McRockface’ yet?!

@abxorb 4 месяца назад

Anyone else also noticed the audio quality going up and down from about two-thirds of the video?

@nicksamek12 4 месяца назад

I'd recommend looking more into the Apollo mission quarantine protocols -- they were totally ineffective and would not have worked had the astronauts been infectious.

@RealSaintB 4 месяца назад

Dibs on the band name Dust Bunnies of the Solar System

@Handsome_Christopher 2 месяца назад

8:00 is that a magic wand he has 😅

@mr.johnson3844 3 месяца назад

I definitely do not and never have bought the hypothesis that all of the water on earth was deposited over time by asteroids. The idea that enough water to fill the oceans was deposited that way is just so ludicrous to me. It's fantastical.

@RandyMachoSavage 3 месяца назад

Ooouh. Mute point. There, nacho libre.

@Mu51kM4n 3 месяца назад

NASA is incredibly serious about their acronyms

@robbl7209 2 месяца назад

Would have been great to explain why the piece you were holding looks like it does -- that it's a *slice* of an asteroid. It may seem self-explanatory, but there are a lot of people who may not figure that out for themselves.