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Star Viewing and Public Lecture This Friday

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Join the Boise State Department of Physics on Friday, Oct 7, to celebrate the launch of OSIRIS-Rex (Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security – Regolith Explorer) spacecraft to travel to a carbon-rich, near-Earth asteroid called Bennu.

The event kicks off at 7:30 p.m. in Multipurpose Classroom Building Room 101, right across the street from the Brady Street Parking Garage. Alessondra Springmann, a rocket scientist studying asteroids and comets at the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, will speak. She presently works on NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex asteroid sample return mission.

At 8:30 p.m., attendees will move to the top of the Brady Garage, where telescopes will be set up for gazing at the Moon, Mars and Saturn.

For more information about this free event, visit www.astrojack.com/bsu-orx-event or e-mail professor Brian Jackson atbjackson@boisestate.edu.