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The Next Discovery Mission

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Type: General Meetings

Keywords: Venus Asteroids Spaceflight

Held on: Oct 21, 2015 (Wed) at 07:30 PM to Oct 21, 2015 (Wed) at 09:00 PM

Speaker: Van Kane

Location: Physics/Astronomy Auditorium (PAA), Room A102, Seattle, Washington

Event Coordinator: Christopher Laurel

Overview

What do you think should be NASA's next destination for exploration of the Solar System: Venus, a metallic asteroid, or a tour of the Trojan asteroids? On September 30th, NASA announced the five finalists for the next Discovery class mission. Van Kane will talk about the missions and what they could tell us about our Solar System.

 

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