Where no spacecraft has gone before: A close encounter with binary asteroids

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#Where no spacecraft has gone before: A close encounter with binary asteroids

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“#Where no spacecraft has gone before: A close encounter with binary asteroids” An artist’s depiction of the twin Janus spacecraft. Credit: Lockheed Martin CU Boulder and Lockheed Martin will 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…