NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is about to have its second close encounter with an asteroid

A NASA spacecraft will approach an Asteroid in an Asteroid in the main pipeline on Sunday afternoon, a few asteroid flybys planned for a 12-year mission to learn the remains of the solar system. Lucy Space Ship is named after Asteroid Donaldjohanson 596 mph (960 km) – Lucy Homini discovering the fossils of Lucy – at the closest PASS, 1: 51 Nasa. Lucy will use three tools to capture detailed observations as the object approaches the object to get the full picture. It will stop watching the asteroid to be closest, to prevent them from harming the sun to prevent them from harm.

The spacecraft previously been in a small asteroid in Dinkinesh in 2023 and revealed that observations Asteroid connection has been orbited by those known as binaryor a double-moon in a peanut-double-moon “made of two small objects touching each other” Nasa was explained at that time. After Donaldjohanson, Lucy will go to the main goals, a handful of “Trojan” asteroids in the same way to the Sun on a handful of “Trojan” asteroids. In 2027, these facilities are expected to reach the first.

“There is a different story to explain each asteroid, and these stories come together to paint the history of our system,” Tom Statler, Lucy Mission Program Schedule, made a press release. “The demolition of every new asteroid we visit means we start to understand the depths and richness of this history. Telescopic observations means that Donaldjohanson will be an interesting story and will be an interesting story.”