The Committee on Planetary Protection concluded that missions to small bodies should not be reduced from Category II to Category I, citing the importance of primitive, volatile-rich, and organic-bearing bodies to prebiotic chemistry studies and the current lack of knowledge about them.

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  Planetary protection: an international concern and responsibility

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• COSPAR Panel on Planetary Protection entity