Two Asteroid Missions I'll Be Interested To Follow.

[bornagainathiest]

https://www.nasa.gov/psyche  and  https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/lucy-the-first-mission-to-jupiter-s-trojans

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16_Psyche

 

 

http://www.lunarplanner.com/HCpages/Jupiter-Trojans/index.html

 

 

There are a LOT of these guys...

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jupiter_trojans_(Greek_camp)_(1–100000) 

 

and  

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jupiter_Trojans_(Trojan_camp)_(1–100000)

 

...but the Lucy probe will only visit six of them.

 

Thanks,

 

BAA.

 

 

[pantheory]

I agree, all kinds of possibilities. I expect they will be finding many of the same kind of materials that they will eventually find in the asteroid belt, only with much fewer large bodies concerning the Lucy mission.