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The Lucy spacecraft is the centerpiece of a US$981 million mission. [7] It was launched on 16 October 2021. On 4 January 2017, Lucy was chosen, along with the Psyche mission , as NASA's Discovery Program missions 13 and 14 respectively.
The Lucy spacecraft made a flyby of Dinkinesh from a distance of 425 km (264 mi) on 1 November 2023 16:54 UTC. [26] Lucy ' s flyby of Dinkinesh was announced by NASA and the Lucy science team on 25 January 2023, more than one year after Lucy had launched in October 2021. [27]
21900 Orus / ˈ ɔːr ə s / is a Jupiter trojan asteroid from the Greek camp, approximately 53 kilometers (33 miles) in diameter, and a target of the Lucy mission to be visited in November 2028. [9] It is among the 100 largest Jupiter trojans and has a rotation period of 13.5 hours. [7]
The Lucy spacecraft zoomed by the small asteroid Dinkinesh, located in our solar system’s main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. But what astronomers thought was one asteroid ...
A spacecraft named Lucy is on its way to a part of space that’s never been explored after being rocketed into the sky from Cape Canaveral before Saturday’s sunrise. The probe launched on time ...
2 Lucy - how many diamonds are in the sky with her? Just one, or more than one?
Lucy is a NASA space probe on a twelve-year journey to eight different asteroids. It is slated to visit two main belt asteroids as well as six Jupiter trojans – asteroids that share Jupiter's orbit around the Sun, orbiting either ahead of or behind the planet. [15] [16] All target encounters will be flyby encounters. [17]
This minor planet is planned to be visited by the Lucy spacecraft, which would observe it en route to its main target of several Jupiter trojans. [10] The Lucy probe is named after the "Lucy" hominid fossil, while Donaldjohanson is named for that fossil's co-discoverer Donald Johanson (born 1943), an American paleoanthropologist.