The original plan for OKEANOS was to launch a sample return mission to one of the Jupiter Trojan asteroids that sit in the Lagrange points in front of and behind Jupiter and its orbital path.
All about the first human in space Santana-Ros said there could be more Trojan asteroids around Earth awaiting detection. The two Lagrange points where they might exist, L4 and L5, are notoriously ...
Jupiter's Trojan asteroids are the last remnants of 'planetesimals ... However, some were trapped in two different regions, close to the Lagrange points (L4 and L5), where the gravitational ...