NASA's Lucy spacecraft is currently traveling through the solar system on its way to study the Trojan asteroids in the orbit of Jupiter.
The asteroid Lucy will pass by is tiny, at just 0.4 miles across, and is currently unnamed — it is referred to by its technical name, 1999 VD57. But it happens to be located close to the path Lucy is taking, and by making small adjustments to the its course Lucy will be able to come even closer.
Watch an SUV-sized asteroid zoom by Earth in close shave flyby in this time-lapse video
Asteroid 2023 BU zipped past Earth Thursday night (Jan. 26) to the delight of amateur astronomers worldwide.
The Virtual Telescope is a robotic telescope operated by Italian amateur astronomer Gianluca Masi near Rome, Italy.
Masi, who shared an hour-long webcast of the observations on the Virtual Telescope website, wasn't able to capture the closest approach as clouds rolled in, however. Nonetheless, the Virtual Telescope Project was able to get a good look at the car-sized rock, seen in time-lapse above.
James Webb found water ice in the rings of an asteroid
Originally discovered in 1997, the asteroid Chariklo is too far away for any of our current space telescopes to properly observe it or take images of it.
The discovery of this intriguing asteroid was quite a big deal back in 1997, but it wasn't until 2013 that astronomers discovered rings surrounding the small asteroid. This made it the first asteroid with a ringed system that we had ever discovered.
James Webb Space Telescope discovers water ice at ringed asteroid Chariklo 'by remarkable ...
In October 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or Webb) watched as Chariklo , a tiny ringed asteroid, eclipsed a star. This event, called an occultation, marked a first for Webb.
Although it is the largest of its kind, Chariklo is still too small and too far for even the mighty Webb to photograph directly. Instead, astronomers decided to study it through occultation, which is an indirect but powerful method to study small bodies like Chariklo.
Our #LucyMission was already set to break records by visiting 9 asteroids during its 12-year mission. Now it will b… https://t.co/OJJVKw6Jwx NASASolarSystem (from Milky Way Galaxy) Wed Jan 25 17:27:26 +0000 2023
NASA quietly announced this week it's planning no further attempts to fully deploy a solar array on the Lucy spacec… https://t.co/onk3mNlaas jeff_foust (from Rockville, Maryland, USA) Sat Jan 21 14:51:43 +0000 2023
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