Abstract
A National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) advisory team has selected a bright, short‐period comet named Kopff as the target for a comet rendezvous/asteroid flyby mission to be launched in 1990. The rendezvous is the third in a series of “core missions”‐along with the Venus Radar Mapper and a Mars orbiter—to be proposed following recommendations by the agency's Solar System Exploration Committee (SSEC) two years ago (Eos, November 9, 1982, p. 852.) It is planned as a new start in the fiscal year 1987 budget.The mission will be the first to use the new Mariner Mark II spacecraft derived from earlier vehicles such as Voyager and Viking and intended for deep space reconnaisance. Following a July 1990 space shuttle launch, the spacecraft will fly by and take close looks at the main‐belt asteroids Namaqua and Lucia on its way to a rendezvous with Kopff in 1994.
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