Planetary Societ Hangout: OSIRS-REx PI and asteroid name winner

The Planetary Society‘s weekly Hangout yesterday  included Dante Lauretta, the principal investigator of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission , which will take off in 2016 on a mission to visit the near-Earth carbonaceous asteroid (101955) .  The show also included Mike Puzio, age 9, of North Carolina who won the OSIRIS-REx Name That Asteroid contest (see earlier posting).