Asteroid ‘Dinkinesh’/Lucy spacecraft

Santhosh Kumar 02/11/2023
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Asteroid ‘Dinkinesh’/Lucy spacecraft mind map with below nodes Context NASA's Lucy spacecraft Mission 6-billion-kilometre journey To study Jupiter Trojan asteroids Discovery of Dinkinesh In 1999 by LINEAR survey Identified as potential fly-by target Orbit Sun in the main belt Between Mars and Jupiter Width Less than 1 kilometre Composition S-type asteroid Mainly silicates and some metal First asteroid visit By Lucy on its 12-year journey About Lucy spacecraft Launch October 2021 Aim To observe Jupiter Trojan asteroids Huge group of small bodies Orbiting the Sun in two swarms Instrument for observation Lucy Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (L'LORRI) Initial flyby targets Dinkinesh Donaldjohnson in 2025 Support from WISE NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer Provides estimates Of asteroid’s size and albedo Helps understand near-Earth objects

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