Researchers have utilized infrared survey data to refine the asteroid’s size and surface brightness in support of the Nov. 1 encounter by NASA’s Lucy mission. NASA’s Lucy mission will soon have its first asteroid encounter as the spacecraft travels through deep space en route to Jupiter’s orbit. But before the spacecraft passes 265 miles (425 […]
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Lucy, Asteroids, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA), NEO Surveyor (Near-Earth Object Surveyor Space Telescope), NEOWISE, Planetary Defense, Trojan Asteroids, WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer)
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October 30, 2023
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