NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Adds Asteroid Dinkinesh to Mission: Everything You Need to Know

2023-09-20 01:01:00
Hamburger 20 Sep 2023 08:01 AM Share news of an asteroid named (152830) Dinkinesh, also known as 1999 VD57, has been added to the mission of NASA’s Lucy spacecraft, United States, which is a probe. Trojan asteroids (Trojan) are a group of asteroids whose orbits overlap with the orbit of Jupiter. Dinkinesh It is an asteroid in the rocky main belt. It has a diameter of approximately 900 meters and was discovered on November 4, 1999 by the Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR). Scientists determined that Dinkinesh rotates on its own with a period of 52.67 hours. The variable brightness shows that it has an elongated shape. The high-resolution camera named Lucy LONng Range Reconnaissance Imager (L’LORRI) installed on the Lucy spacecraft captured the first image of Dinkinesh while it was 23 million kilometers from the asteroid. Dinkinesh is also a planet. It’s the first of 10 planets that the Lucy spacecraft will visit during its 12-year exploration journey. Scientists say the spacecraft will come close to asteroid Dinkinesh, at a distance of 450 kilometers, on Nov. 1, 2023.Credit: NASA /Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL divmargin:0 -15px;@media (max-width:767.98px).css-x9zhmpwidth:100vw;max-width:inherit;margin:30px -15px; ]]>
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