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A plaque on the Lucy mission featuring 20 messages from people on Earth Onboard the spacecraft is a golden plaque that contains its launch date, the positions of the planets at the launch date, the continents of Earth at the time of launch, its nominal trajectory, and twenty speeches, poems, and song lyrics from people such as Martin Luther ...
The data collected during the Lucy mission flyby will continue to return to Earth over the next week. This information will help the mission team prepare for the spacecraft’s future asteroid ...
Dinkinesh was Lucy ' s first and smallest asteroid flyby during its mission, and is the smallest main-belt asteroid explored by spacecraft yet. [27] The Dinkinesh flyby served to test Lucy ' s autonomous tracking capabilities before it will apply them to its main science targets, the Jupiter trojans.
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 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.
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15094 Polymele / p ɒ l ɪ ˈ m iː l iː / is a primitive Jupiter trojan from the Greek camp, approximately 21 kilometers (13 miles) in diameter.It is a target of the Lucy mission with a close flyby planned to occur in September 2027.
By studying these asteroids up close, scientists hope to learn more about how our solar system’s planets formed 4.5 billion years ago.