Marco Polo (spacecraft) - NEO's

NEO's

NEOs are among the most accessible bodies of the Solar System. A number of possible targets of high scientific interest has been selected and covers a wide spectrum of possible launch windows in the time span 2015-2019, namely

•The C-type asteroid 1999 JU3, as a representative of the numerous primitive population of the C (carbonaceous) taxonomic type asteroids; another C-type asteroid may be considered, namely 1989 UQ.

•Asteroids which belong to the primitive D and T types, namely 2001 SG286 and 2001 SK162, respectively;

•The dormant comet 4015 Wilson-Harrington (1979 VA), which can provide insights on the unknown link between asteroids and comets;

•The primitive C-type double asteroid 1996 FG3, which can provide insight into binary formation processes.