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Meanwhile, the #LucyMission continues its journey toward its first encounter - the asteroid Dinkinesh on November 1, 2023 https://www.nasa.gov/lucy
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Lucy: The First Mission to Jupiter’s Trojans

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Congrats to the "Eyes on Asteroids" team, winners of a People's Voice Award from the Webbys! Have you tried it? Tour the solar system's space rocks, and track our asteroid expeditions: #OSIRISREx, #LucyMission, and, soon, #MissionToPsyche - https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/asteroids/
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Eyes on Asteroids - NASA/JPL

Explore the 3D world of Asteroids, Comets and NEOs. Learn about past and future missions, tracking and predicting orbits, and close approaches to Earth.
Eyes on Asteroids - NASA/JPL
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📢 @NASAAero gets closer to quiet supersonic flight, @NASA_Orion’s solar arrays are tested for Moon travel, and the #LucyMission spots the distant asteroids that it will one day visit—This Week at NASA.

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This week, two solar system objects gained names.

Meet Dinkinesh, an asteroid that the #LucyMission will flyby on Nov 1, 2023. 'Dinkinesh' is the Ethiopian name for the human-ancestor fossil, also known as Lucy, which was discovered there.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2023/nasas-lucy-asteroid-target-gets-a-name/
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NASA’s Lucy Asteroid Target Gets a Name

The first asteroid to be visited by the NASA Lucy mission now has a name.
Madison Arnold (NASA)
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Our #LucyMission was already set to break records by visiting 9 asteroids during its 12-year mission. Now it will be adding another asteroid flyby to its 4-billion-mile journey. The new flyby will also provide a test run for later encounters. 🛰🪨 More: https://go.nasa.gov/3wxFXid
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NASA’s Lucy Team Announces New Asteroid Target

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will add another asteroid encounter to its 4-billion-mile journey. On Nov. 1, 2023, Lucy will get a close-up view of a small main-belt asteroid to conduct an engineering test of the spacecraft’s innovative asteroid-tracking nav…
Jessica Merzdorf (NASA)
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So many choices this year!

#LucyMission flies by Earth https://go.nasa.gov/3ssVDBf
@NASAPersevere collects samples http://mars.nasa.gov/msr/
@NASAWebb spies Neptune https://go.nasa.gov/3VpXvGR
#JunoMission sees Io in infrared https://go.nasa.gov/3C7oNek

More: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news
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NASA’s Juno Exploring Jovian Moons During Extended Mission

After revealing a trove of details about the moons Ganymede and Europa, the mission to Jupiter is setting its sights on sister moon Io.
Tony Greicius (NASA)
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Lucy in the sky! On Oct. 16, NASA's #LucyMission flew a mere 160 miles (260 kilometers) from the Earth's surface. 22 minutes later, team members caught a glimpse of the spacecraft with a telescope in Nebraska, just as Lucy emerged from Earth's shadow. https://youtu.be/gSHJ3uSnI-A #NASASolarSystem

Earth-Based Telescopes Spot NASA's Lucy Spacecraft

As clouds covered most of Colorado the morning of Oct. 16, 2022, team members from NASA's Lucy Mission drove to Scottsbluff, Nebraska, in order to catch a gl...
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