«The Earth - Trojan asteroid search provides a substantial advantage to the OSIRIS - REx mission,» Dante Lauretta, principal investigator on the project and professor of Planetary Science and
Cosmochemistry at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, said in a press release.
According to Robert Clayton, a professor emeritus
at the University of Chicago in Illinois who pioneered the use of oxygen isotopes in
cosmochemistry, the authors may have done little more than find a more precise method of measurement.