NASA Goddard | NASA's Lucy Mission Flyby of Asteroid Dinkinesh @NASAGoddard | Uploaded 10 months ago | Updated 58 minutes ago
On Nov. 1 2023, NASA's Lucy spacecraft will fly by the small Main Belt asteroid Dinkinesh (previously known as 1999 VD57). This asteroid flyby was added to Lucys list of targets in January 2023. The primary purpose of the Dinkinesh encounter is to test the spacecrafts Terminal Tracking System, which will keep Lucy's instruments pointing at the asteroid as it flies by at 10,000 miles per hour. The Lucy missions record-breaking tour will now explore at least ten small solar system bodies. Lucy will have the close approach with Dinkinesh as the spacecraft skims the inner edge of the main asteroid belt. After the encounter, Lucy will head back towards Earth for its second gravity assist in December 2024. That assist will send the spacecraft to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids.
Credits: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Produced, Edited, and Narrated by: David Ladd (AIMM)
Animations by: Walt Feimer (KBRWyle) and Jonathan North (KBRWyle)
Visualizations by: Kel Elkins (USRA)
Music provided by Universal Production Music: "Pioneer" - Lorenzo Castellarin
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On Nov. 1 2023, NASA's Lucy spacecraft will fly by the small Main Belt asteroid Dinkinesh (previously known as 1999 VD57). This asteroid flyby was added to Lucys list of targets in January 2023. The primary purpose of the Dinkinesh encounter is to test the spacecrafts Terminal Tracking System, which will keep Lucy's instruments pointing at the asteroid as it flies by at 10,000 miles per hour. The Lucy missions record-breaking tour will now explore at least ten small solar system bodies. Lucy will have the close approach with Dinkinesh as the spacecraft skims the inner edge of the main asteroid belt. After the encounter, Lucy will head back towards Earth for its second gravity assist in December 2024. That assist will send the spacecraft to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids.
Credits: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Produced, Edited, and Narrated by: David Ladd (AIMM)
Animations by: Walt Feimer (KBRWyle) and Jonathan North (KBRWyle)
Visualizations by: Kel Elkins (USRA)
Music provided by Universal Production Music: "Pioneer" - Lorenzo Castellarin
This video can be freely shared and downloaded at https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14426. While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, the music and some individual imagery may have been obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. Specific details on such imagery may be found here: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14426. For more information on NASAs media guidelines, visit https://nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines.
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