NASA's Lucy spacecraft provides its first glimpse of asteroid Dinkinesh. Over a span of two months, Lucy will get closer, testing its systems before a close flyby on November 1, 2023. The small dot moving against the background of stars is the first view from NASA’s Lucy spacecraft of the main be
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has captured its initial images of the main belt asteroid, Dinkinesh, the first of 10 asteroids Lucy will study over a 12-year period. While currently 14 million miles away, Lucy will approach within 265 miles of Dinkinesh on November 1, 2023, using this close encounter to test its systems. Credit: NASAThe 3 Most Secretive Zodiac Signs #astrology #zodiac’s Lucy spacecraft provides its first glimpse of asteroid Dinkinesh.
The small dot moving against the background of stars is the first view from NASA’s Lucy spacecraft of the main belt asteroid Dinkinesh, the first of 10 asteroids that the spacecraft will visit on its 12-year voyage of discovery. Lucy captured these two images on September 2 and 5, 2023. On the left, the image blinks between these first two images of Dinkinesh. On the right, the asteroid is circled to aid the eye.
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captured these images of asteroid Dinkinesh on September 2 and 5, 2023. Credit: NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APLLucy took these images while it was 14 million miles away from the asteroid, which is only about a half-mile wide . Over the next two months, Lucy will continue toward Dinkinesh until its closest approach of 265 miles on November 1, 2023.
Lucy will continue to image the asteroid over the next months as part of its optical navigation program, which uses the asteroid’s apparent position against the star background to determine the relative position of Lucy and Dinkinesh to ensure an accurate flyby. Dinkinesh will remain an unresolved point of light during the long approach and won’t start to show surface detail until the day of the encounter.The brightest star in this field of view is HD 34258, a 7.
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