NASA’s Jupiter and around Trojan asteroids The Lucy mission, which he started to study, started in October with the separation of the spacecraft from Earth. Encounter with asteroids year 2025 The spacecraft that will find managed to surprise everyoneI.
Asteroids host smaller moons
Teams working with one of NASA’s newest spacecraft have been working years before reaching their final destination. on an unexpected discovery found. The spacecraft plans to visit smallest of asteroids It turned out to have a satellite.
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On March 27, 2022, 26 different teams had one of Lucy’s goals. the asteroid Polymele to study when passing in front of a star in different parts of the world made an observation. Thus, observers aiming to calculate the distance, size and shape of Polymele precisely. an unexpected sight encountered with.
Some of the teams were from Polymele during this observation. about 200 km away detected a celestial body. Expressing that this object is a satellite, scientists say that the diameter of the satellite is 5 kilometers calculated that. To compare Polymele asteroid It is about 27 kilometers long at its widest point.
The discovery made is quite small. around asteroids It turns out that there may even be satellites. The Lucy team had encountered a similar incident before, but this is a frequent occurrence. Lucy’s mission may lead to a different progress than planned.
in January 2021 Hubble Space Telescopeimages taken from Trojan asteroid He revealed that Eurybates was also surrounded by a smaller moon. After all these developments “12 years, 7 asteroids and 1 spacecraftStarting off with the slogan “Lucy’s job description seems to change as time progresses.
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