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OSIRIS-REx Pycnometer Installed at NASA and Ready for Science!

By Robert Trembley  |  27 Oct 2023  |  Sacred Space Astronomy

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OSIRIS-REx. We finally finished building the pycnometer to study density and porosity of specimens from the asteroid Bennu as part of the OSIRIS-REx Sample Analysis Plan. In this video, the final version of the pycnometer is built, installed at NASA Johnson Space Center, and tested.

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