NASA Psyche mission and near-Earth asteroids

Multiple articles cover NASA's Psyche spacecraft conducting a Mars flyby in May 2029 as a gravity assist maneuver toward its target metal asteroid, while separate reports document various newly discovered asteroids making close approaches to Earth. The cluster mixes coverage of a planned deep space mission with unrelated near-Earth object encounters.

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