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According to Space.com, the final selection has been made for the next DISCOVERY mission.

It will be the GRAIL lunar gravity mapping mission.

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Edit: Just noticed that Norm Hartnett posted an official link earlier on the KAGUYA topic:

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- Holder of the Two Leashes   GRAIL: New DISCOVERY mission to the moon   Dec 11 2007, 10:02 PM
- - Mariner9   I was pleasently surprised by the September 2011 l...   Dec 12 2007, 02:12 AM
- - mchan   Recalling what happened to Discovery 11, it's ...   Dec 12 2007, 06:26 AM
- - mps   QUOTE (Mariner9 @ Dec 12 2007, 04:12 AM) ...   Dec 12 2007, 07:19 AM
- - monitorlizard   GRAIL is supposed to support the return of humans ...   Dec 12 2007, 05:48 PM
- - Holder of the Two Leashes   Yes, I believe GRAIL needs its own thread. On to...   Jan 9 2008, 12:25 AM
|- - tedstryk   A major issue is that far side gravity has always ...   Jan 9 2008, 11:48 AM
- - Holder of the Two Leashes   Looks like GRAIL is going to have some company on ...   Apr 11 2008, 12:01 AM
- - mps   It was actually expected. We already knew that A....   Apr 11 2008, 05:52 AM
- - edstrick   The press release and all other materials I've...   Apr 11 2008, 08:27 AM
- - mps   So far they talk about "spectrometer for atmo...   Apr 11 2008, 08:48 AM
- - mps   For the record, some launch info from NSF.com and ...   Sep 9 2008, 12:59 PM
- - Holder of the Two Leashes   GRAIL has its own website now, with a detailed mis...   Nov 12 2008, 05:27 PM
- - mps   QUOTE (edstrick @ Apr 11 2008, 10:27 AM) ...   Dec 30 2008, 09:45 AM
- - Holder of the Two Leashes   Updates: Denver Post article. (URL deleted) Space....   May 20 2011, 04:24 AM
- - Holder of the Two Leashes   The Delta rocket has had a completely successful l...   Sep 10 2011, 05:13 PM
|- - ngunn   QUOTE (Holder of the Two Leashes @ Sep 10 201...   Sep 11 2011, 06:40 PM
|- - sgendreau   Beast and Beauty?   Sep 11 2011, 11:36 PM
- - Lewis007   HD videos of the launch, launch replays, and space...   Sep 11 2011, 06:15 AM
- - djellison   I was in Florida for the launch ( demoing Eyes on ...   Sep 11 2011, 06:59 AM
- - elakdawalla   Let's keep the name suggestions out of this th...   Sep 12 2011, 02:39 AM
- - nprev   GRAIL-A LOI burn in progress; follow it at Eyes On...   Dec 31 2011, 09:42 PM
- - lyford   Both A and B have successfully completed LOI: htt...   Jan 2 2012, 01:17 AM
- - Phil Stooke   Ebb and Flow! Not bad... My Dad went to Fuln...   Jan 17 2012, 06:24 PM
- - Sunspot   I would have gone for Isaac & Newton   Jan 17 2012, 07:34 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Ebb and Flow are busy adjusting their orbits... he...   Jan 31 2012, 08:58 PM
|- - ElkGroveDan   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Jan 31 2012, 12:58 P...   Jan 31 2012, 09:46 PM
- - Phil Stooke   ... and the first video from Moonkam: http://www....   Feb 1 2012, 10:27 PM
- - Holder of the Two Leashes   The science phase of the mission is now underway. ...   Mar 9 2012, 06:06 AM
- - Holder of the Two Leashes   The mission has been extended to December, with th...   Mar 22 2012, 08:40 PM
|- - ElkGroveDan   QUOTE (Holder of the Two Leashes @ Mar 22 201...   Mar 25 2012, 08:17 PM
- - Phil Stooke   ... and lots of nice MoonKAM pics here: http://im...   Mar 25 2012, 06:29 PM
- - djellison   Oh no, I distinctly remember the Deep Impact impac...   Mar 25 2012, 08:28 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Yeah, but these are Maytags! Phil   Mar 25 2012, 08:56 PM
- - Astro0   These kids have picked some really nice shots for ...   Mar 28 2012, 12:45 AM
- - Doug M.   So, decommissioning GRAIL. The mission will end i...   Sep 21 2012, 11:34 PM
- - Phil Stooke   MoonKAM on GRAIL has taken over 100000 images now ...   Sep 30 2012, 03:18 PM
- - djellison   So we are extending the GRAIL/MoonKAM Eyes on the ...   Sep 30 2012, 03:23 PM
- - 0101Morpheus   Any idea when the gravity map will be published? I...   Nov 5 2012, 11:31 PM
- - Phil Stooke   The mission is still in progress, currently acquir...   Nov 5 2012, 11:53 PM
- - elakdawalla   Actually, at DPS they said that there was an artic...   Nov 6 2012, 12:05 AM
- - Phil Stooke   We are coming up to the end of GRAIL's extende...   Nov 24 2012, 10:39 PM
- - elakdawalla   FWIW, I haven't heard a thing. That mission ha...   Nov 25 2012, 06:06 AM
- - Phil Stooke   This is from spaceflight101, a very useful site: ...   Nov 27 2012, 09:52 PM
- - elakdawalla   There's a press briefing at AGU on Wednesday n...   Nov 27 2012, 10:12 PM
- - Phil Stooke   A wee update - MoonKAM was turned on for the exten...   Dec 2 2012, 07:38 PM
- - nprev   Huh. Please pardon my lack of memory here, but t...   Dec 2 2012, 07:44 PM
|- - mcaplinger   QUOTE (nprev @ Dec 2 2012, 12:44 PM) this...   Dec 2 2012, 08:51 PM
- - nprev   Hmm. Okay, thanks, Mike. Wonder which event took...   Dec 2 2012, 09:16 PM
- - Phil Stooke   http://www.spaceflight101.com/grail-mission-update...   Dec 5 2012, 04:23 PM
- - djellison   Science Results in 9 minutes live at http://live.p...   Dec 5 2012, 04:51 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Pics and maps here. A deeply fractured crust. Ph...   Dec 5 2012, 05:47 PM
- - Paolo   now on Science Express: Ancient Igneous Intrusions...   Dec 5 2012, 08:07 PM
- - 0101Morpheus   Hmm. Looking over the maps doesn't seem to sho...   Dec 6 2012, 07:57 PM
- - elakdawalla   I'm having trouble finding a Mercator-projecte...   Dec 7 2012, 01:07 AM
- - Phil Stooke   You could go here: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resour...   Dec 7 2012, 01:43 AM
- - elakdawalla   Ah, I'd completely forgotten I could set the p...   Dec 7 2012, 01:52 AM
- - Phil Stooke   It allows craters at mid- to high-latitudes to app...   Dec 7 2012, 02:06 AM
- - Explorer1   GRAIL talk starting pretty quick: http://www.ustr...   Dec 7 2012, 02:58 AM
- - Phil Stooke   "NASA will host a media teleconference at 10:...   Dec 11 2012, 02:59 AM
- - stevesliva   Emily's discussion of the GRAIL results is top...   Dec 12 2012, 12:36 AM
- - nprev   Indeed it is; world-class real science explanation...   Dec 12 2012, 03:32 AM
- - stewjack   Just a reminder UPCOMING EVENT: NASA Moon Mission...   Dec 13 2012, 05:09 PM
- - Paolo   from images of today's teleconf, the two space...   Dec 13 2012, 06:28 PM
- - Explorer1   Had no idea they 'caught' LRO up to now. F...   Dec 13 2012, 06:40 PM
- - Phil Stooke   The scattered fragments will be the most northerly...   Dec 13 2012, 07:10 PM
- - Phil Stooke   And speaking of locations... on the posted graphic...   Dec 14 2012, 01:09 AM
|- - SFJCody   On the other side of the quality scale from Emily...   Dec 14 2012, 03:53 AM
|- - stewjack   QUOTE (SFJCody @ Dec 13 2012, 11:53 PM) S...   Dec 14 2012, 02:44 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Let's hope they splash down safely! Graun...   Dec 14 2012, 04:19 AM
- - Explorer1   Rocket burn complete, according to JPL. Coverage ...   Dec 15 2012, 12:45 AM
- - Adam Hurcewicz   I made animation of last flight of Ebb and Flow. ...   Dec 17 2012, 09:35 PM
- - Astro0   Live broadcast on NASA TV now. http://www.nasa.gov...   Dec 17 2012, 10:06 PM
- - Explorer1   That cross-section chart updating every couple sec...   Dec 17 2012, 10:27 PM
- - Astro0   Final resting place for Grail A&B is now named...   Dec 17 2012, 10:32 PM
- - 0101Morpheus   This was probably the most exciting moon mission p...   Dec 18 2012, 12:25 AM
- - Explorer1   And two new holes in the ground at that   Dec 18 2012, 01:55 AM
- - Astro0   Just a final contribution... Thank you GRAIL.   Dec 18 2012, 06:38 AM
- - Phil Stooke   Ebb, one of the GRAIL spacecraft, made some final ...   Dec 23 2012, 04:26 AM
- - Explorer1   Any news from LRO? I see nothing on the main websi...   Dec 31 2012, 05:04 AM
- - elakdawalla   Even if they do have an image, which they might no...   Dec 31 2012, 02:17 PM
|- - MahFL   QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Dec 31 2012, 03:17 P...   Jan 2 2013, 11:54 AM
- - Phil Stooke   One other point - LRO is in a higher orbit now so ...   Jan 2 2013, 04:39 PM
- - djellison   Moreover - just because a site is in sunlight does...   Jan 2 2013, 05:30 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Final (or nearly final, not sure yet) video from G...   Jan 11 2013, 01:33 AM
|- - Tunglere   I found it interesting to realize that the 10km al...   Jan 11 2013, 04:29 AM
|- - ups   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Jan 11 2013, 02:33 A...   Jan 11 2013, 05:50 PM
- - djellison   As far as I know - those were the last frames take...   Jan 11 2013, 07:12 AM
- - Astro0   Thoroughly impressed by the MoonKam project as an ...   Jan 11 2013, 08:24 AM
|- - mcaplinger   QUOTE (Astro0 @ Jan 11 2013, 01:24 AM) Ca...   Jan 11 2013, 04:59 PM
- - machi   Few weeks ago I did two animations from those imag...   Jan 11 2013, 08:49 AM
- - djellison   The cameras were bolted to the spacecraft in that ...   Jan 11 2013, 07:00 PM
|- - ups   QUOTE (djellison @ Jan 11 2013, 07:00 PM)...   Jan 11 2013, 07:53 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Here's an updated version of my Nearside Moon ...   Jan 17 2013, 03:13 PM
- - elakdawalla   Is this farside map of yours still current? Trying...   Jan 17 2013, 04:23 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Yes it is - no more farside impacts. Incidentally...   Jan 17 2013, 05:25 PM
- - rogelio   LROC spots craters formed by GRAIL probes (sorry I...   Mar 19 2013, 10:47 PM
- - nprev   Wow. LROC is an impressive instrument indeed, and ...   Mar 19 2013, 10:55 PM
- - Phil Stooke   There is no abstract, this was a press conference,...   Mar 20 2013, 03:42 AM
- - Bill Harris   Better images and text at the NASA/LROC site: htt...   Mar 21 2013, 09:46 PM
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