No less than Nature (actually Nature Astronomy, still within the Nature family) states:
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Couldn’t have put it better myself. This is an editorial introduction to the October issue (vol. 9), in which the top journal staff introduce and highlight some papers in the issue that form a theme. “Since then, the community interest in small bodies has only grown, and they loom larger than ever”. One paper: the origin of Earth’s water, from carbonaceous chondrites- in other words, asteroids, not comets.
And those are hindsight papers. The editorial also touches on China’s Tianwen-2 probe (now on course), and the Rubin Observatory– about to unleash millions- yes, >1 million- new small bodies.