NASA has selected eight participating scientists to join its mission Lucy to the asteroids of Jupiter Trojan. These asteroids are remains of our early solar system trapped on associated stable orbits – but not nearby – the planet Jupiter.
Lucy in the program of scientists participating in L4 Trojans de la Nasa helps scientists to conduct new surveys that answer the outstanding questions linked to the asteroids of Trojan Jupiter as part of the Lucy mission. Launched in 2021, the Lucy The spacecraft is currently on the way to the L4 Trojan Swarm, which leads Jupiter on its orbit around the sun. This is the first selection of participating scientists from Lucy, who will become members of the scientific team of the mission for the four main asteroid meetings that Spatial Lucy will have in the L4 swarm in 2027 and 2028, and which will remain in the team for a subsequent scientific analysis until 2030.
Newly selected participating scientists are:
- Harrison Agrusa, Côte d’Azur observatory in Nice, France
- Benjamin Byron, University of Florida Centrale in Orlando
- Emily Costello, University of Hawaii, Honolulu
- Masatoshi Hirabayashi, Georgia Tech Research Corporation in Atlanta
- Fiona Nichols-Fleming, Smithsonian Institution in Washington
- Norbert Schorghofer, Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona
- Jennifer Scully, NASA jet propulsion laboratory in southern California
- Anne Verbiscer, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Lucy’s principal investigator, Hal Levison, is based on the branch of Boulder, Colorado, the Southwest Research Institute, whose headquarters are in San Antonio. The Goddard Space Flight Center from NASA in Greenbelt, Maryland, provides global mission management, systems engineering and security and mission insurance. Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, Colorado, built and operates the spaceship. Lucy is the 13th mission of the NASA discovery program. The Marshall Space Flight Center of NASA in Huntsville, Alabama, manages the discovery program for the direction of the scientific mission at the headquarters of NASA in Washington.
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