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Nov 7, 2023 · The Lucy mission is named after the fossilized skeleton of an early hominin (pre-human ancestor) that was found in Ethiopia in 1974 and named “Lucy” by the team ...
Feb 13, 2024 · By August 2027, Lucy will reach its first swarm of Trojans that precede Jupiter at a gravitationally stable location known as a Lagrange point, specifically ...
Nov 2, 2023 · The spacecraft, named Lucy, has a primary mission of exploring Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, a series of asteroids trapped in the gas giant's orbit. The new high- ...
Nov 7, 2023 · 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 – ...
Nov 1, 2023 · 1, NASA confirmed its Lucy spacecraft successfully completed a flyby of asteroid Dinkinesh, a relatively small space rock located in the main belt between Mars ...
Nov 8, 2023 · Lucy is actually heading back to Earth, which it will use for a gravity assist to propel it onto the next part of its journey, back through the main asteroid ...
Nov 7, 2023 · Lucy's principal investigator is based out of the Boulder, Colorado, branch of Southwest Research Institute, headquartered in San Antonio. NASA's Goddard Space ...
Mar 29, 2024 · The Lucy mission, which launched in October 2021, will begin touring its list of primary targets, the Trojan asteroids, starting August 2027. These Trojan ...
Oct 31, 2023 · NASA's Lucy spacecraft is about to visit its first asteroid. On 1 November, it will pass within 430 kilometres of the small asteroid Dinkinesh, testing its ...
