{"id":65131,"date":"2019-01-04T13:20:32","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T13:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=65131"},"modified":"2019-01-04T13:20:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T13:20:39","slug":"asteroid-bennu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/asteroid-bennu\/","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid Bennu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Recently NASA\u2019s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has discovered traces of water forming ingredients i.e. hydrogen and oxygen molecules in which of the following asteroid?<\/strong><br> (a)    Pallas<br> (b)    Bennu<br> (c)    Hygiea<br> (d)    Ceres<br> <strong>Answer: (b)<br> Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>NASA\u2019s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has discovered traces of water forming hydrogen and oxygen molecules in the asteroid Bennu\u2019s rocky surface.<\/li><li>OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at asteroid Bennu on December 3, 2018.<\/li>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7086827700842303\" data-ad-slot=\"2662621974\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n<li>OSIRIS-REx is the first asteroid sample-return mission sent by the American space agency NASA, to collect samples of the surface regolith and bring them back to Earth for further study.<\/li><li>OSIRIS-REx  fully known as Origins,Spectral Interpretation,Resource Identification,Security-Regolith Explorer.<\/li><li> Under the NASA\u2019s New Frontiers program starting from the New Horizons spacecraft which passed through Pluto and Juno spacecraft into orbit around Jupiter, OSIRIS-REx is the third mission in this series.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/education-today\/gk-current-affairs\/story\/water-on-asteroid-bennu-nasa-spacecraft-1407227-2018-12-11\">https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/education-today\/gk-current-affairs\/story\/water-on-asteroid-bennu-nasa-spacecraft-1407227-2018-12-11<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/solarsystem.nasa.gov\/asteroids-comets-and-meteors\/asteroids\/101955-bennu\/overview\/\">https:\/\/solarsystem.nasa.gov\/asteroids-comets-and-meteors\/asteroids\/101955-bennu\/overview\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Recently NASA\u2019s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has discovered traces of water forming ingredients i.e. hydrogen and oxygen molecules in which of the following asteroid? (a) Pallas (b) Bennu (c) Hygiea (d) Ceres Answer: (b) Related facts: NASA\u2019s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has discovered traces of water forming hydrogen and oxygen molecules in the asteroid Bennu\u2019s rocky surface. OSIRIS-REx [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":65133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1131],"tags":[2377],"class_list":["post-65131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dssn","tag-defensescience-short-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}