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Kevin Walsh
Southwest Research Institute
Kevin Walsh is a collaborator to NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission since 2012, and is now the deputy lead of the Regolith Development Working Group. This Working Group is tasked with compiling all information to constrain the nature and history of geologic material on the surface of the target asteroid Bennu, including building maps of sampleable regions to help select sample sites.
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How Do We Know When We Have Collected a Sample of Bennu?
A huge amount of effort goes into deciding where to try to collect a sample on Bennu. There are roughly nine months to survey, map and model the asteroid to help make this decision.