The workshop will give an update of the study of MarcoPolo-R at ESA and known properties of the primitive asteroid 2008 EV5. The relevance of the mission in a several fields, such as astrophysics, exobiology and cosmochemistry will be emphasized and discussed with the interested community.
Preliminary program:
- The status of the mission study (D. Koschny, ESA-ESTEC, The Netherlands)
- The target characterization: composition (M. A. Barucci, LESIA-Paris Obs., France)
- The target characterization: physical properties (P. Michel, OCA – Nice, France)
- MarcoPolo-R: An Overview of the Cosmochemistry Science MarcoPolo-R: An Overview of the Cosmochemistry Science
(I. Franchi, Open University, UK)
- Curation Facility (C. Smith, Natural History Museum, London, UK)
- General discussion (all)