NASA's Lucy spacecraft, on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, has its next target in its sights: the main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson. Currently 45 million miles (70 million kilometers ...
Anne Verbiscer, a research professor in the University of Virginia’s astronomy department, will soon be working with NASA to take a closer look at Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. Verbiscer is one of eight ...
The apparent motion of the asteroid between the two ... The mission’s focus on the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, in particular, ...
NASA is working to launch a mission in 2021 to explore Jupiter's Trojan asteroids. This mission, called Lucy, will be the first-ever space mission to study Jupiter's Trojans, and is expected to ...
Images show the perceived motion of the asteroid ... the never-before-explored Jupiter Trojan asteroids." NASA says the asteroid is named in honor of anthropologist Donald Johanson, who discovered ...
Launched on October 16, 2021, Lucy is on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids and has its next target in its sights: asteroid Donaldjohanson. As reported by Space.com, the spacecraft performed a ...