EAPS

Join us for a live webcast with mission scientists Mission Scientists: Richard Binzel (EAPS, MIT), Beth Ellen Clark (Ithaca College) and Bashar Rizk (University of Arizona). We will discuss the the science behind the OSIRIS-REx probe and its voyage to the asteroid Bennu can teach us about life and death in the Solar System.

VIEW WEBCAST HERE

Send your questions in advance or during the webcast using: #KAVLILIVE or via e-mail to: info@kavlifoundation.org

About the speakers:
* RICHARD BINZEL - is a professor of planetary sciences and the MacVicar Faculty Fellow in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) department of Earth, Atmosphere and Planetary Sciences, and a member of the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (MKI). He is one of the world’s leading experts on the study of asteroids and a co-investigator on the OSIRIS-REx mission.

* BETH ELLEN CLARK - is a professor and chair of the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Ithaca College. The Mission Asteroid Scientist for OSIRIS-REx, she has helped its many researchers figure out how to select the best potential sites on Bennu for collecting samples.

* BASHAR RIZK - is a senior staff scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona. He is the instrument scientist for a trio of cameras, known as OCAMS (OSIRIS-REx Camera Suite), which will help the spacecraft navigate, explore and sample Bennu.

* ADAM HADHAZY (moderator) – is a freelance science writer who chiefly covers astrophysics and astrobiology. He has a Master's degree in science journalism from New York University.