Statler

Tom Statler, Lucy program scientist, told VOA in an email that Trojan asteroids are "leftovers from the formation of our solar system's giant planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune" and that "the formation and early evolution of the Earth was influenced by what was happening to the giant planets farther from the sun.

The Trojan asteroids "are the last major population of objects in our solar system that have not yet been seen close-up by spacecraft," Statler said.