It is unlikely because of the cost more than the technology. It would be interesting to know how an asteroid can have rings, but it has no real practical value, and as such, I think it is doubtful that any government would be willing to spend millions on a probe.
You could prevent the death and/or suffering of thousands of people with the same money.
New knowledge is often useful in unexpected ways.
I really hope that better knowledge of cosmology will eventually give a great number of people new places to live without having to rob any previous residents.
But what else might be produced cannot be guessed. Lives are saved and enhanced a lot already from satellite communication and navigation.
I am old enough to remember satellite communication being new, we got along without it before and few of us knew what a great difference it would make now.
Arthur C. Clarke is generally credited with the origin of the idea of the communication satellite.....,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._ClarkeWho was wont to say.......
1.When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2.The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
3.Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke's_three_laws