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[i]"For 2008 EV5, which we have identified as the candidate we're doing our detailed [mission] design against, [it] has not been visited by spacecraft and there are no plans [to do so] until we get there with the ARM spacecraft, if that is what we choose as the target for the mission," Lindley Johnson, NASA's Near Earth Object program executive, told reporters. "But it has been extensively observed [to determine] it is a carbonaceous Type-C asteroid, which is of particular interest to scientists because of the volatiles and elements we know to be in those types of asteroids." "We've a very good idea of its size, shape, spin dynamics and the potential existence of the right-size boulders on its surface," Johnson said.[/i]
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