Emily Lakdawalla · @elakdawalla
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Ooo, updated estimates of size, brightness, and spin of two of the targets among the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, and . 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.

iopscience.iop.org/article/10.

#LucyMission #orus #eurybates #sciencepaper #planetaryscience #space #astronomy #asteroid

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Dr. Eddy Bettermann MD · @dreddy
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