Lucy (spacecraft)
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Lucy is a NASA space probe on a twelve-year journey to eight different asteroids. It is slated to visit two main belt asteroids as well as six Jupiter trojans – asteroids that share Jupiter's orbit ar
CAD drawing of L'LORRI
L'Ralph
L'TES
Illustration of the deployed spacecraft
3548 Eurybates
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3548 Eurybates is a carbonaceous Jupiter trojan from the Greek camp and the parent body of the Eurybates family, approximately 68 kilometers in diameter. It is a target to be visited by the Lucy missi
Lucy (spacecraft)
…it flew by and photographed asteroids Dinkinesh and Donaldjohanson, respectively. Lucy will reach its first main target, the Jupiter Trojan asteroid Eurybates, in August 2027. The mission is named after the Lucy hominin fossils, because study of the trojans could reveal the "fossils of planet formation…
Shape model of Eurybates derived from its light curve