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White to move and mate in two #410 - To Bennu and back [1]

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Date: 2023-09-26

After a 7-year 6.2 billion km journey to asteroid Bennu and back, the NASA OSIRIS-REx spacecraft made history on Sunday as it made a special delivery to earth of rock and regolith samples collected from asteroid Bennu in 2020. You can read about the mission in this diary — OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample capsule to land at 10:55 a.m. EDT - Liveblog.

Here are some images from the exciting events on Sunday.

The parachuted landing of the capsule took place at the Air Force Utah Test and Training Range, about 100 km west of Salt Lake City at 10:52 a.m. EDT.

Transport by helicopter to the Army’s Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah.

Transport by human hands to the temporary clean room in Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah.

Inspection and partial disassembly in the temporary clean room.

Relax, those aren’t tentacles

Transport in a C-17 aircraft from Utah to Houston on Monday.

The final destination at NASA Johnson in Houston — the glovebox. Scientists will separate, curate and analyze the rocks and rubble over the next 2 years and beyond.

Now let’s think outside the box to solve today’s chess puzzle composed in 1925 by Arnoldo Ellerman, the well-known Argentinian composer of chess problems.

P.S.

The chess puzzle is published on Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays.

It is customary for advanced players to wait till midnight ET before posting the full solution. Before then, they provide some stats about the solution (e.g., the minimum number of distinct checkmate moves), help guide others, and sometimes post hints. But there are no hard-and-fast rules; feel free to post comments as you please.

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