NASA has added a new asteroid target to its Lucy mission.

As the spacecraft continues its 12-year journey, NASA has added a new asteroid target to its Lucy mission.

As the Lucy spacecraft travels on its more than 6-billion-kilometer trip to explore the Jupiter trojan asteroids

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NASA revealed that it is adding a new target. On November 1, 2023

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Lucy will examine the new target, a tiny main-belt asteroid, up close in order to test the spacecraft's asteroid-tracking navigation system.

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Since it is believed that the same components that constructed the planets

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During the solar system's creation around four billion years ago also generated them

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The Trojan asteroids are referred to as a "ancient population of asteroid fossils."

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In October of last year, Lucy engaged in the first of the mission's three "slingshot manoeuvres" around the planet.

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