Lucy Spacecraft Preparing for its First Asteroid Flyby

Close Pass Expected on November 1

Artists Conceptualization of Lucy Spacecraft Encountering Asteroid Dinkinesh

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is preparing for its first close-up look at an asteroid. On Nov. 1, it will fly by asteroid Dinkinesh and test its instruments in preparation for visits in the next decade to multiple Trojan asteroids that circle the Sun in the same orbit as Jupiter.

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