NASA’s Lucy Captures First Images of Asteroid Donaldjohanson Ahead of Close Flyby
Lucy is preparing for a close encounter with the asteroid Donaldjohanson, a key milestone before its groundbreaking journey ...
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Your Last Chance To See Lucy In The Sky Before 2030 Is This Friday
Lucy will then fly back to Earth, where a more distant flyby will send it toward the Trojans that follow Jupiter, set to encounter the binary asteroid Patroclus–Menoetius on March 2, 2033.
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NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Snaps First Look at Upcoming Asteroid Target
Asteroid Donaldjohanson (highlighted in the ... with the final flyby (of Patroclus and Menoetius, the two asteroids featured in the top image) in 2033. But thereafter, Lucy will stay in a stable ...
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What are Lagrangian points?
Within the next year, two other asteroids were found at Sun-Jupiter L points: The asteroid 624 Hektor was observed at L 4, ...
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What to know about the asteroid that could hit Earth in 2032
In late January, scientists announced the discovery of an asteroid with a remote chance of hitting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. Scientists from the Center for Near Earth Object Studies at NASA said in ...
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Asteroid's odds of hitting Earth fluctuate as NASA tasked with studying it
An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized as a potential ...