Nasa Trojan asteroids mission on course for October 2021 launch0
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- August 7, 2020
Lucy spacecraft has passed its system integration review and can now be assembled and tested
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Are Mars’ Trojan Asteroids Pieces of the Red Planet?0
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- July 28, 2017
The Trojan asteroids that follow Mars in its orbit might have come from the planet itself, blown off in an ancient impact rather than being late arrivals, a new study suggests.
Mars Trojans may be part of a planet that was destroyed long ago0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 29, 2017
Mars has an asteroid entourage, with nine so-called Trojans trailing in its wake. Now it seems these travelling companions all had the same violent beginning: as the innards of a mini-planet, eviscerated in a violent collision. Some remnants may even have been incorporated into the material that became Mars.
Kepler has caught hundreds of asteroids0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 25, 2016
Kepler has had managed to ‘catch’ many meteors and asteroids in its mission to observe stars, and some astronomers have decided to use this data.
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Kepler has caught hundreds of asteroids
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- October 25, 2016
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