NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Preparing for its First Asteroid Flyby - NASA Science

NASA's Lucy spacecraft is preparing for its first close-up look at an asteroid. On Nov. 1, it will fly by asteroid Dinkinesh and test its instruments in preparation for visits in the next decade to multiple Trojan asteroids that circle the Sun in the same orbit as Jupiter.

Dinkinesh, less than half a mile, or 1 kilometer, wide, circles the Sun in the main belt of asteroids located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Lucy has been visually tracking Dinkinesh since Sept. 3 ; it will be the first of 10 asteroids Lucy will visit on its 12-year voyage.

Date: 2023-10-19T13:57:42

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