Japan lands robot on asteroid

[space otter]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/article/history-made-japan-lands-robot-on-asteroid/vi-AAAABzU


History made: Japan lands robot on asteroid
Duration: 00:42 9 hrs ago
A Japanese space agency's spacecraft launched two rovers that took photos from an asteroid 170 million miles away from earth.

42 sec of photos at link

[Pimander]

If they are going to land on something, why not something exciting like Ceres?

[The Seeker]

If they are going to land on something, why not something exciting like Ceres?

Perhaps that asteroid has something very interesting in its composition, say several tons of gold?
Or the puppetmasters said no to landing anywhere else...