What about #LucyMission ?
"#NASA ’s Lucy mission is the first spacecraft launched to explore the Trojan #asteroids a population of primitive asteroids orbiting in tandem with #jupiter
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Congrats to the "Eyes on Asteroids" team, winners of a People's Voice Award from the Webbys! Have you tried it? Tour the solar system's space rocks, and track our asteroid expeditions: #OSIRISREx, #LucyMission, and, soon, #MissionToPsyche - https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/asteroids/
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📢 @NASAAero gets closer to quiet supersonic flight, @NASA_Orion’s solar arrays are tested for Moon travel, and the #LucyMission spots the distant asteroids that it will one day visit—This Week at NASA.
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We love Lucy!
The @NASASolarSystem #LucyMission captured its first views of four of its Trojan asteroid targets, from 330 million miles (530 million kilometers) away. Set to fly by in 2027-2028, Lucy will be the first mission ever to visit them:
https://go.nasa.gov/43tu8c3
This week, two solar system objects gained names.
Meet Dinkinesh, an asteroid that the #LucyMission will flyby on Nov 1, 2023. 'Dinkinesh' is the Ethiopian name for the human-ancestor fossil, also known as Lucy, which was discovered there.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2023/nasas-lucy-asteroid-target-gets-a-name/
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Ooo, updated estimates of size, brightness, and spin of two of the #LucyMission targets among the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, #Orus and #Eurybates. Both have super-dark, comet-like surfaces, which we already knew, and retrograde rotation, which we didn't know before. Knowing the spin pole orientation is super important for planning flyby science.
#SciencePaper #PlanetaryScience #Space #Astronomy #Asteroid https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/acaf79
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Our #LucyMission was already set to break records by visiting 9 asteroids during its 12-year mission. Now it will be adding another asteroid flyby to its 4-billion-mile journey. The new flyby will also provide a test run for later encounters. 🛰🪨 More: https://go.nasa.gov/3wxFXid
I just sent the second issue of my #newsletter out to subscribers! Small Body Rings, Visits, and Close Approaches, with news about the close flyby of #neo #asteroid #2023BU, #Chariklo and its #rings, and the November flyby of a new target for the #LucyMission. https://elakdawalla.beehiiv.com/p/2023bu-chariklo-rings-lucy-1999vd57
#newsletter #neo #asteroid #2023bu #chariklo #rings #LucyMission
Our #LucyMission was already set to break records by visiting 9 asteroids during its 12-year mission. Now it will be adding another asteroid flyby to its 4-billion-mile journey. The new flyby will also provide a test run for later encounters. 🛰🪨 More: https://go.nasa.gov/3wxFXid
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Our #LucyMission was already set to break records by visiting 9 asteroids during its 12-year mission. Now it will be adding another asteroid flyby to its 4-billion-mile journey. The new flyby will also provide a test run for later encounters. 🛰🪨 More: https://go.nasa.gov/3wxFXid
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/NASASolarSystem/status/1618299518004654080
So many choices this year!
#LucyMission flies by Earth https://go.nasa.gov/3ssVDBf
@NASAPersevere collects samples http://mars.nasa.gov/msr/
@NASAWebb spies Neptune https://go.nasa.gov/3VpXvGR
#JunoMission sees Io in infrared https://go.nasa.gov/3C7oNek
#LucyMission #JunoMission #NASASolarSystem
Lucy in the sky! On Oct. 16, NASA's #LucyMission flew a mere 160 miles (260 kilometers) from the Earth's surface. 22 minutes later, team members caught a glimpse of the spacecraft with a telescope in Nebraska, just as Lucy emerged from Earth's shadow. https://youtu.be/gSHJ3uSnI-A #NASASolarSystem
Lucy in the sky! On Oct. 16, NASA's #LucyMission flew a mere 160 miles (260 kilometers) from the Earth's surface. 22 minutes later, team members caught a glimpse of the spacecraft with a telescope in Nebraska, just as Lucy emerged from Earth's shadow. https://youtu.be/gSHJ3uSnI-A #NASASolarSystem
Lucy in the sky! On Oct. 16, NASA's #LucyMission flew a mere 160 miles (260 kilometers) from the Earth's surface. 22 minutes later, team members caught a glimpse of the spacecraft with a telescope in Nebraska, just as Lucy emerged from Earth's shadow. https://youtu.be/gSHJ3uSnI-A #NASASolarSystem http://nitter.net/NASASolarSystem/status/1587092910285070337#m
Say cheese!📸🌕 Our #LucyMission captured this mosaic of the Moon on Oct. 16, hours after it flew by Earth for Lucy's first of three gravity assists. Lucy was about 140,000 miles (230,000 km) from the Moon when it took these images. Click to enlarge! https://go.nasa.gov/3DC9w6F #NASASolarSystem http://nitter.net/NASASolarSystem/status/1585290334468128769#m
Hello, beautiful! As the #LucyMission passed by Earth recently, it captured this look at our planet. The upper left of the image includes a view of Hadar, Ethiopia, home to the 3.2 million-year-old human ancestor fossil for which the spacecraft was named https://go.nasa.gov/3ssVDBf #NASASolarSystem http://nitter.net/NASASolarSystem/status/1584927037613305857#m
Hi there, #LucyMission! In this long exposure from Southern California, the passing Lucy spacecraft appears as a streak of light near the top of the image. To the left, a meteor makes a fainter streak as it happens to enter the atmosphere in the same moment. #WaveToLucy #NASASolarSystem http://nitter.net/NASASolarSystem/status/1581748022886555649#m
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✅NASA’s #LucyMission completed its 1st Earth Gravity Assist, passing just 220 miles/350 km above Earth’s surface! In 2 years, Lucy will return for a 2nd gravity assist, which will let it reach the main asteroid belt & observe asteroid Donaldjohanson. https://nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/lucy-ega #NASASolarSystem http://nitter.net/NASASolarSystem/status/1581626410955071488#m
Heads up, coming through! It's unlikely, but our #LucyMission will swoop so close to Earth on Oct. 16 that engineers will monitor the spacecraft non-stop in case they have to change its trajectory to avoid colliding with a satellite in Earth orbit: https://go.nasa.gov/3TphhSe #NASASolarSystem http://nitter.net/NASASolarSystem/status/1581037830054125568#m
Follow along as our #LucyMission zooms past Earth this weekend on its journey to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids. Check out the "Eyes on the Solar System" 3D experience: https://go.nasa.gov/3euvdvz More about Lucy's mission: https://go.nasa.gov/3yDQRED #NASASolarSystem http://nitter.net/NASASolarSystem/status/1580707290960666624#m