{"id":4161,"date":"2023-10-24T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/?p=4161"},"modified":"2023-10-22T17:09:01","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T21:09:01","slug":"lucy-to-finally-meet-dinkinesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/?p=4161","title":{"rendered":"Lucy to Finally Meet Dinkinesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; padding-right: 30px;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tzcosX_HIo4?si=OoJ1sfFGHtYqlfeE\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia dicit:<\/p>\n<p>Lucy is a NASA space probe on a twelve-year journey to eight different asteroids, visiting two main belt asteroids as well as six Jupiter trojans, asteroids which share Jupiter&#8217;s orbit around the Sun, orbiting either ahead of or behind the planet. All target encounters will be flyby encounters. The Lucy spacecraft is the centerpiece of a US$981 million mission. <\/p>\n<p>On 4 January 2017, Lucy was chosen, along with the Psyche mission, as NASA&#8217;s Discovery Program missions 13 and 14 respectively. <\/p>\n<p>The mission is named after the Lucy hominid fossils, because study of the trojans could reveal the &#8220;fossils of planet formation&#8221;: materials that clumped together in the early history of the Solar System to form planets and other bodies. The hominid was named after the 1967 Beatles song &#8220;Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds&#8221;. The spacecraft carries a disc made of lab-grown diamonds for its L&#8217;TES instrument. <\/p>\n<p>Video credit: NASA Goddard<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucy studies the trojans that could reveal the &#8220;fossils of planet formation&#8221;: materials that clumped together in the early history of the Solar System to form planets and other bodies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1,463],"tags":[883,805],"class_list":["post-4161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotic-exploration","category-space-exploration","category-videos","tag-dinkinesh","tag-lucy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4162,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4161\/revisions\/4162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}