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New Small Satellite Mission to Rendezvous With Binary Asteroids – AiThority

The twin-spacecraft Janus project will study the formation and evolutionary implications for small “rubble pile” binary asteroidsThe University of Colorado Boulder and Lockheed Martin will soon lead a new space mission to capture the first-ever close

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The twin-spacecraft Janus project will study the formation and evolutionary implications for small “rubble pile” binary asteroids
The University of Colorado Boulder and Lockheed Martin will soon lead a new space mission to capture the first-ever closeup look at a mysterious class of solar system objects: binary asteroids.
These bodies are pairs of asteroids that orbit around each other in space, much like the Earth and Moon. In a project review on Sept. 3, NASA gave the official go-ahead to th…

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