MBR Explorer: UAE Plans Space Mission to Explore Asteroid Belt

The seventh asteroid, Justitia, is the most intriguing. About 30 miles wide, Justitia is very reddish, an unusual color for an asteroid. Indeed, it looks more like one of the small icy worlds found in the Kuiper belt, circling the sun beyond the orbit of Neptune. That has led planetary scientists to speculate that Justitia formed in the outer reaches of the solar system and then was scattered inward by the shifting orbits of the giant planets, eventually joining the asteroid belt. If that is true, a visit to Justitia would provide a close-up study of a Kuiper belt object without the long trip to the solar system's distant reaches.