Proposed NASA SmallSat Mission Could Be First To Visit Pallas, Our Third Largest Asteroid0

• From Around the Web, Space
• March 12, 2019

Pallas, our solar system’s third largest and wholly unexplored asteroid, is the target for a potential SmallSat NASA flyby mission for possible launch in 2022. This remnant protoplanet, in fact, remains the largest unexplored planetary body inside the orbit of Neptune.