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Saturn gets its 1st confirmed Trojan asteroid — but it might be stolen
These Jovian Trojans are considered so scientifically important that the NASA mission Lucy will visit the Greek camp in ...
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Saturn gets its 1st confirmed Trojan asteroid — but it might be stolen
These Jovian Trojans are considered so scientifically important that the NASA mission Lucy will visit the Greek camp in August 2027 when it performs a flyby of the asteroid Eurybates and its ...
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Watch How NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Flew By Asteroid Dinkinesh
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a surprising discovery, a close binary! Preliminary statistics ...
The Next Web4d
Apophis: a European space mission gets up close with an asteroid set to brush by Earth
A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...
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NASA found a ‘mini-moon’ orbiting an asteroid in the outer solar system
That’s because the tiny moon is orbiting too close to its parent asteroid. Further, they say that if Lucy had not been watching Polymele when it crossed in front of the star, we probably wouldn ...
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Apophis: a new European space mission could get up close with a large asteroid that’s set to brush by Earth
The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called (99942) Apophis.
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Saturn’s first Trojan asteroid has finally been discovered
Astronomers have finally found an asteroid keeping pace with Saturn in ... The NASA spacecraft Lucy will visit eight of them between 2027 and 2033 (SN: 10/15/21) . Trojan asteroids also exist ...
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Asteroid-mining company AstroForge gets 1st-ever FCC license for commercial deep-space mission
The license covers the Odin mission, which will launch in early 2025 on board the next Intuitive Machines moon launch.