SwRI awarded NASA contract to develop Jupiter Trojan asteroid mission
Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 05, 2015 - A Southwest Research Institute proposal to study primitive asteroids orbiting near Jupiter that could give insights into the origins of the solar system is one of five science investigations selected as a possible future NASA mission. Dr. Harold F. Levison, an Institute scientist at SwRI, is the principal investigator for Lucy, a science mission aimed at "Surveying the diversity of Trojan ... more

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