
Leaders of the Lucy asteroid mission
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
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Are the Small Body Populations Affected?
We expect, at least some of these objects probably will be able to take us back to the earliest era of the solar system. You know, if you look at what nassa and the other space agences have been doing, spending a lot of time studying the small bodies. In a real sense, these populations were affected and scolded during the planet formation process,. And relatively have been unperturbed since then, right? So so we did the analysis, and we don't have any concern for europa or mars. Even though these are the jupiter trojansi, because of the grand point, are 60 degrees in front and behind j Jupiter in its orbit. And
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