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NASA LUCY ASTEROID MISSION PATCH- GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER 2021 LAUNCH- 3.5

NASA LUCY ASTEROID MISSION PATCH- GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER 2021 LAUNCH- 3.5"

$ 5.28

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  • Type: NASA Patch
  • Space Program: NASA Program
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    Description

    On 31 January 2019, NASA announced that Lucy would launch in October 2021 on an Atlas V 401 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
    The mission is named after the 'Lucy' hominin skeleton, because the study of Trojans could reveal the "fossils of planet formation": materials that clumped together in the early history of the Solar System to form planets and other bodies. Exploration of Jupiter Trojans is one of the high priority goals outlined in the Planetary Science Decadal Survey. Jupiter Trojans have been observed by ground-based telescopes and the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer to be "dark with... surfaces that reflect little sunlight".