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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.
Lucy swung by the space rock, located in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, on November 1 as part of a test of the spacecraft’s equipment before tackling the mission’s primary ...
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 ...
Lucy-Ann Adams McFadden (born 1953) is an American astronomer and planetary scientist. An employee of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration , she also founded the Science, Discovery & the Universe Program within the University of Maryland , and the Explore-It-All Science Center, a children's science program.
Although the impacts took place on the side of Jupiter hidden from Earth, Galileo, then at a distance of 1.6 AU (240 million km; 150 million mi) from the planet, was able to see the impacts as they occurred. Jupiter's rapid rotation brought the impact sites into view for terrestrial observers a few minutes after the collisions. [34]
NASA’s Lucy mission flew by the asteroid Dinkinesh this week, and the images it captured revealed not one but two space rocks. NASA’s Lucy mission went to visit an asteroid and got more than ...
On 5 July 2016, spacecraft Juno arrived and entered the planet's orbit—the second craft ever to do so. Sending a craft to Jupiter is difficult, mostly due to large fuel requirements and the effects of the planet's harsh radiation environment. The first spacecraft to visit Jupiter was Pioneer 10 in 1973, followed a year later by Pioneer 11.
The NASA Lucy mission will closely fly by the first of 10 asteroid targets on Wednesday. The mission will capture detailed images of Dinkinesh’s surface. Shadowy asteroid Dinkinesh is ‘about ...