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the osiris-rex mission is a mission that

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primarily is going to bring a sample of

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a primitive asteroid back to earth so

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that we can study it completely

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uncontaminated by any other reactions on

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the earth

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the meteorites that we pick up could

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have had other interactions with organic

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materials on the surface of the earth so

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they're not pristine the scientific

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objectives are to understand the

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material that was available for the

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formation of the earth the origin of

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life things like that at the very

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beginning of the solar system in order

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to do that we need to bring back a

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sample and do the analysis of that

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sample

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in our laboratories we can do much more

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sophisticated analysis in the

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laboratories than we can at the

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at rq36 simply because you can't carry a

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whole laboratory with you on a

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spacecraft

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the reason asteroid research is

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important is because

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the asteroids themselves are leftover

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remnants of the rocks and the dust and

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possibly some of the gas that's embedded

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in those those rocks and dust and

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crevices

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uh from the early solar system it's

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material that literally is a grab bag of

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the solar nebula at the time that that

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grab bag happened to form which was