OSIRIS stands for "Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security."
REx, for "Regolith Explorer," was tacked on later, when the researchers designed a new and improved "king" version of an earlier model named, simply, OSIRIS. "Rex" means "king" in Latin. Regolith is rocky asteroid surface material.
like osiris body, "samples of regolith that, once brought back to Earth, will be distributed all over the world for scientists to analyze".
tenuous i agree.
https://www.livescience.com/33309-nasa-acronyms-osiris-rex-asteroid-spacecraft-mission.html
bennu:
The winning entry came from Mike Puzio, a nine-year-old from North Carolina. Mike argued that the Touch-and-Go Sample Mechanism (TAGSAM) arm and solar panels on OSIRIS-REx look like the neck and wings in drawings of Bennu, which Egyptians usually depicted as a gray heron.
oh hahahahaha!!
discovered. Sept 11. 1999
geez these guys….
this article even compares the size of it to the WTC north and south towers….
https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/933016/NASA-Asteroid-Bennu-date-discovered-End-of-the-World-hit-destroy-earth
wikipedia has a few more possible dates:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/101955_Bennu
as far as the doom and gloom….
i like Antmans idea better!
the rising of the pheonix!
the alignment for our queen hearts and king minds to align! earth and sky unite!
>>6179>>6180
Also I just put it together that comets are called
NEOS : Near Earth Objects
!!! coinkidink !!!