Dante Lauretta
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| Gender | Male |
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| Awards | Nier Prize |
| Education | The University of Arizona |
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| Affiliations | University Of Arizona |
| Interests | Asteroids |
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| ID | 3977985 |
Dante Lauretta Life story
Dante S. Lauretta is a professor of planetary science and cosmochemistry at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. He is currently serving as the principal investigator on NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.
Osiris-Rex: Nasa awaits fiery return of asteroid Bennu samples
... " We have spent an inordinate amount of time preparing for contingencies, everything that could go wrong, all the horrible things that we might encounter, " mission principal investigator Dante Lauretta told the BBC...
Osiris-Rex: Asteroid Bennu 'is a journey back to our origins'
... The capsule caries a precious cargo - a handful of dust grabbed from asteroid Bennu, a mountain-sized space rock that promises to inform the most profound of questions: Where do we come from? " When we get the 250g (9oz) of asteroid Bennu back on Earth, we ll be looking at material that existed before our planet, maybe even some grains that existed before our Solar System, " says Prof Dante Lauretta, the principal investigator on the mission...
