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Sánchez featured on PBS NOVA

Paul Sánchez

The latest episode of PBS's NOVA spotlights NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission and the effort to understand and protect Earth against the prospect of a rogue asteroid.

Paul Sánchez, a senior research associate in the Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research is featured the episode, which premiered Oct. 21.

Sánchez joined ²ÊÃñ±¦µä in 2008 and has made significant contributions to the understanding of rubble pile asteroids, like Bennu, the asteroid being studied by the OSIRIS-REx probe. In 2019, the International Astronomical Union announced the binary asteroid (20882) Paulsánchez had been named in his honor.