Amendment 2: OREx-PSP Draft Text for Community Comment

ROSES-17 Amendment 2: Release of OSIRIS REx Participating Scientists Program Draft Text for Community Comment.

OSIRIS-REx launched Sept. 8, 2016, with the primary objective of traveling to the near-Earth (Apollo type, spectral class B) asteroid 101955 Bennu, obtaining a sample containing at least 60 g of regolith material, and delivering this sample back to Earth. Once the spacecraft reaches Bennu, a wide range of observations and measurements will be made to characterize and map the asteroid, identify and characterize in detail sites where samples might be collected, and finally to collect a sample from the optimal site and stow it for delivery to Earth.

The objective of the OSIRIS-REx Participating Scientist Program (OREx-PSP) is to enhance the scientific return during the asteroid-operational phase of the OSIRIS-REx mission by expanding participation in the mission through new investigations that broaden and/or complement existing principal investigator (PI) and co-investigator (Co-I)-led investigations.

This amendment releases a draft version of C.22, the OSIRIS-REx participating scientist program element for community comment. Questions and comments on this draft program element should be directed to Jeffrey Grossman at jgrossman@nasa.gov and Christina Richey at christina.r.richey@nasa.gov by March 16, 2017.