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Feb 2024
55m 21s

OSIRIS-REx becomes APEX

The Planetary Society
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Scott Guzewich, deputy project scientist for NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX mission, joins Planetary Radio to discuss the next steps for the mission as we count down to asteroid Apophis’ flyby of Earth in 2029. 
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