JPL does cool stuff, but this is a little weird. From the earlier post:
> Osiris is the god of the afterlife, the underworld,
> and rebirth in ancient Egypt.
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> REX is latin for King, so the translation is "Orisis is King".
The asteroid visited by this spacecraft poses a relatively high risk (by astronomical standards) of causing a catastropic impact on Earth. Basic concept is that it's going to pass close enough to Earth in 2060 that the precise trajectory coming in determines whether it will impact Earth when it passes nearby in a following year. Meaning that if someone wanted to cause a catastrophic asteroid impact late in this century, very slight nudges on it anytime during the next 25 or so years could put the asteroid onto an eventual impact trajectory. Now maybe NASA chose this spacecraft name because the asteroid is dangerous. But with what we know about the cabal, the choice of mission name is a bit worrying.
Planetary Defense: The Bennu Experiment
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2018-281
excerpt:
About a third of a mile, or half a kilometer, wide, Bennu is large enough to reach Earth's surface; many smaller space objects, in contrast, burn up in our atmosphere. If it impacted Earth, Bennu would cause widespread damage. Asteroid experts at the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, project that Bennu will come close enough to Earth over the next century to pose a 1 in 2,700 chance of impacting it between 2175 and 2196. Put another way, those odds mean there is a 99.963 percent chance the asteroid will miss the Earth. Even so, astronomers want to know exactly where Bennu is located at all times …
Scientists have estimated Bennu's trajectory around the Sun far into the future. Their predictions are informed by ground observations and mathematical calculations that account for the gravitational nudging of Bennu by the Sun, the Moon, planets and other asteroids, plus non-gravitational factors.
Given these parameters, astronomers can predict the next four exact dates (in September of 2054, 2060, 2080 and 2135) that Bennu will come within 5 million miles (7.5 million kilometers or .05 astronomical units) of Earth. That's close enough that Earth's gravity will slightly bend Bennu's orbital path as it passes by. As a result, the uncertainty about where the asteroid will be each time it loops back around the Sun will grow, causing predictions about Bennu's future orbit to become increasingly hazy after 2060.
In 2060, Bennu will pass Earth at about twice the distance from here to the Moon. But it could pass at any point in a 19-mile (30-kilometer) window of space. A very small difference in position within that window will get magnified enormously in future orbits and make it increasingly hard to predict Bennu's trajectory.