NASA’s Lucy Mission: Updates & Occultations

Name: NASA’s Lucy Mission: Updates & Occultations
Start: 2024-10-17T19:00:00-06:00
End: 2024-10-17T20:00:00-06:00
Location: 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, CO, United States, Colorado 80309

Schedule

Thu Oct 17 2024 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, CO, United States, Colorado 80309 | Boulder, CO

NASA’s Lucy Mission launched in October of 2021 and will be the first to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. By the end of its twelve-year mission, the spacecraft will have flown by a record-breaking number of asteroids for a single mission (eleven and counting!).
Why does the mission’s asteroid count keep increasing? And how does the Lucy Team pinpoint the asteroid positions in the first place?
Join a member of the Lucy Occultation Team for a deep dive into the science and adventure of observing asteroids by observing the shadows of these celestial bodies as they pass in front of distant stars (kind of like a mini solar eclipse). Stick around for a mission update about what the Lucy spacecraft observed on November 1 as it flew by the main belt asteroid Dinkinesh.