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Lucy was launched from Cape Canaveral SLC-41 on 16 October 2021, at 09:34 UTC [3] on the 401 variant of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V launch vehicle. It gained one gravity assist from Earth a year later on 16 October 2022, [12] and after making a flyby of the asteroid 152830 Dinkinesh in 2023, [13] gained another gravity assist from Earth in 2024. [14]
Dinkinesh was discovered on 4 November 1999 by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) sky survey at Socorro, New Mexico. [2] The discovery observations were published by the Minor Planet Center (MPC) on 23 November 1999 and the asteroid was given the minor planet provisional designation 1999 VD 57, which describes its discovery year, month, and discovery order within the month. [10]
Date Spacecraft Event Remarks 26 December 2030 Lucy: Third gravity assist at Earth Target altitude 660 km July 2031 Hayabusa2: Arrival at asteroid 1998 KY26 [2] July 2031 JUICE: Flyby of Ganymede: July 2031 JUICE Jupiter orbit insertion July 2032 JUICE Flyby of Europa: 2 March 2033 Lucy: Flyby of binary asteroid 617 Patroclus-Menoetius
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Lucy Catalog no. AL 288-1 Common name Lucy Species Australopithecus afarensis Age 3.2 million years Place discovered Afar Depression, Ethiopia Date discovered November 24, 1974 ; 50 years ago (1974-11-24) Discovered by Donald Johanson Maurice Taieb Yves Coppens Tom Gray AL 288-1, commonly known as Lucy or Dinkʼinesh, is a collection of several hundred pieces of fossilized bone comprising 40 ...
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Header of the Discovery Program website (January 2016) [1] Depictions of the Lucy and Psyche missions Asteroid Eros regolith, as viewed by Discovery's NEAR Shoemaker mission The Discovery Program is a series of Solar System exploration missions funded by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) through its Planetary Missions Program Office.
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