NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Discovers 2nd Asteroid During Dinkinesh Flyby
2023年11月2日 · A series of images of the binary asteroid pair, Dinkinesh, as seen by the terminal tracking camera (T2CAM) on NASA’s Lucy spacecraft during its closest approach on Nov. 1, 2023. The images were taken 13 seconds apart.
Next Five Asteroid Approaches - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory …
4 天之前 · The Asteroid Watch dashboard tracks asteroids and comets that will make relatively close approaches to Earth. The dashboard displays the date of closest approach, approximate object diameter, relative size and distance from Earth for each encounter.
NASA Lucy Images Reveal Asteroid Dinkinesh to be Surprisingly …
2024年5月29日 · On November 1, 2023, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by the main-belt asteroid Dinkinesh. Now, the mission has released pictures from Lucy’s Long Range Reconnaissance Imager taken over a roughly three-hour period, providing the best views of the asteroid to date.
List of asteroid close approaches to Earth - Wikipedia
This is a list of examples where an asteroid or meteoroid travels close to the Earth. Some are regarded as potentially hazardous objects if they are estimated to be large enough to cause regional devastation.
NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Preparing for its First Asteroid Flyby
2023年10月19日 · NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is preparing for its first close-up look at an asteroid. On Nov. 1, it will fly by asteroid Dinkinesh and test its instruments in preparation for visits in the next decade to multiple Trojan asteroids that circle the Sun in the same orbit as Jupiter.
Lucy's first asteroid flyby reveals a surprise moon - The Planetary …
On November 1st, 2023, after two years in the sky with diamonds, the Lucy mission reached its first asteroid, the main belt asteroid called Dinkinesh. Its primary targets are still a few years away because it's a long way to Jupiter, but right out the gate, Lucy's first flyby was a wild success.
Apophis - NASA Science
When Apophis made a distant flyby of Earth around March 5, 2021, astronomers took the opportunity to use powerful radar observations to refine the estimate of its orbit around the Sun with extreme precision, enabling them to confidently rule out any impact risk in …
In Photos: NASA Spacecraft Finds Surprise Second Asteroid During Flyby
2023年11月3日 · When NASA’s Lucy spacecraft conducted a flyby of a small asteroid this week, it got more than engineers bargained for when a second asteroid—a moonlet—popped into view.
NASA’s Lucy Surprises Again, Observes 1st-ever Contact Binary …
2023年11月7日 · After skimming the inner edge of the main asteroid belt, Lucy is now heading back toward Earth for a gravity assist in December 2024. That close flyby will propel the spacecraft back through the main asteroid belt, where it will observe asteroid Donaldjohanson in 2025, and then on to the Trojan asteroids in 2027.
NASA’s Lucy mission closely flew by the asteroid Dinkinesh - CNN
2023年11月1日 · The NASA Lucy mission will closely fly by the first of 10 asteroid targets on Wednesday. The mission will capture detailed images of Dinkinesh’s surface.