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[TheAnt]

Thank you Yaohua for this information. A proposal to get 3 asteroids visited with one mission could make that attractive that the proposal might get a go ahead.

MOD NOTE: Follow-on discussion re multiple encounters moved here.

[vjkane]

MOD NOTE: New topic split from previous posts here.

A proposal to get 3 asteroids visited with one mission could make that attractive that the proposal might get a go ahead.

There have been various concepts in the US planetary community for similar missions. I'm not sure if any made it to the status of formal proposals to the Discovery program. Eventually some space agency is likely to do this.

[Phil Stooke]

Of course, the concept of a multiple small body mission is similar to the ill-fated CONTOUR. I hope we will see this mission happen - I would like to see a large sample of small bodies studied over the years. We're already doing quite well, but there is such diversity still to see.

Phil