That will send Lucy back out to the trailing Trojan cluster, where it will zip past the final two targets in 2033 for a record-setting eight asteroids visited in a single mission. The spacecraft will then zoom back toward Earth for another gravity assist in 2030. The aptly named rock will serve as a 2025 warm-up act for the science instruments.ĭrawing power from two huge circular solar wings, Lucy will chase down five asteroids in the leading pack of Trojans in the late 2020s. On the way there, the spacecraft will zip past asteroid Donaldjohanson between Mars and Jupiter.
Lucy will swing past Earth next October and again in 2024 to get enough gravitational oomph to make it all the way out to Jupiter’s orbit. Some of the Trojan asteroids precede Jupiter in its orbit, while others trail it. Lucy’s $981 million mission is the first to aim for Jupiter’s so-called Trojan entourage: thousands - if not millions - of asteroids that share the gas giant’s expansive orbit around the sun. The spacecraft also carried a disc made of lab-grown diamonds for one of its science instruments. The character of Dorothy in this film ends up on an adventure that changes her and those in her life whose path she crosses (such as the Scarecrow character played by Michael Jackson). Diana Ross plays a very moving and heartfelt role as Dorothy. That discovery got its name from the 1967 Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," prompting NASA to send the spacecraft soaring with band members’ lyrics and other luminaries’ words of wisdom imprinted on a plaque. The Wiz film is very uplifting to watch and I am very glad to have watched it. Lucy is named after the 3.2 million-year-old skeletal remains of a human ancestor found in Ethiopia nearly a half-century ago.
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RELATED: NASA gives update on spacecraft set to explore record-breaking number of asteroids Seven of the mysterious space rocks are among swarms of asteroids sharing Jupiter’s orbit, thought to be the pristine leftovers of planetary formation. Meanwhile, A NASA spacecraft named Lucy rocketed into the sky with diamonds Saturday morning on a 12-year quest to explore eight asteroids.
NASA plans to launch another mission next month to test whether humans might be able to alter an asteroid’s orbit - practice in case Earth ever has a killer rock headed this way. Scientists said most NEOs don’t pose a risk to the planet at all however, they are developing plans for warning systems and diversion tactics should an asteroid endanger the planet. The distance from the Earth to the sun is about 93 million miles. NASA defines a near-Earth object as an asteroid or comet coming less than 1.3 times the distance from Earth to the Sun. 19, ranging from 318,000 miles to 2.9 miles in its distance from Earth. Earlier this month, other massive asteroids whizzed by the planet.
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