Past year
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Encounter date | Target | Altitude |
13 December 2024 | Earth | 350 km |
20 April 2025 | 52246 Donaldjohanson | 922 km |
12 August 2027 | 3548 Eurybates | 1000 km |
15 September 2027 | 15094 Polymele | 415 km |
Nov 7, 2023 · Over its 12-year mission, Lucy will explore a record-breaking number of asteroids: it will by two (plus a newly discovered satellite) in the belt of asteroids ...
Nov 16, 2023 · By September 2027, Lucy will fly by Polymele ("pah-li-MEH-lee" or "pah-LIM-ah-lee"), and then in April 2028 by Leucus ("LYOO-kus" or "LOO-kus"), and Orus ("O- ...
Oct 19, 2023 · The primary aim of the Lucy mission, which launched Oct. 16, 2021, is to survey the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, a never-before-explored population of small bodies ...
Oct 13, 2023 · Since NASA's Lucy spacecraft first imaged the asteroid Dinkinesh on Sept. 3, 2023, Lucy has traveled over 33 million miles (54 million km) and is now 4.7 ...
Nov 5, 2023 · Date: Nov 1, 2023 ; Time of Closest Approach: 16:54 UTC (10:54 MDT) ; Closest Approach Distance: 264 miles (425 km) ; Encounter Speed: 10,000 mph (4.5 km/s) ...
May 7, 2024 · Lucy will journey first to the Greek camp, at L4, where it will fly by (3548) Eurybates and its satellite Queta on August 12, 2027; (15094) Polymele and its ...
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Posted: Oct 19, 2023
Posted: Oct 19, 2023
Oct 30, 2023 · NASA's Lucy mission will soon have its first asteroid encounter as the spacecraft travels through deep space en route to Jupiter's orbit. But before the ...
Nov 7, 2023 · NASA's Lucy Mission is an epic journey to the Trojan Asteroids, "fossils" of the early Solar System. Account managed by the Lucy mission team @SwRI.