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    Satellite Discovered by NASA’s Lucy Mission Gets Name

    The satellite discovered during the first asteroid encounter of NASA's Lucy mission has an official name. On Nov. 27, 2023, the International Astronomical Union approved the name "Selam" or ሰላም, which means "peace" in the Ethiopian language Amharic, for Dinkinesh's moon. "Dinkinesh is the Ethiopian name for the fossil nicknamed ‘Lucy,'", says Raphael Marshall of …

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    NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Completes Asteroid Flyby

    The Lucy operations team has confirmed that NASA's Lucy spacecraft has phoned home after its encounter with the small main belt asteroid, Dinkinesh. Based on the information received, the team has determined that the spacecraft is in good health and the team has commanded the spacecraft to start downlinking the data collected during the encounter. …

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    NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Hours Away from 1st Asteroid Encounter

    We are only a few hours away from the NASA Lucy spacecraft's first close up look at the small inner-main belt asteroid, Dinkinesh. Dinkinesh is 10 to 100 times smaller than the Jupiter Trojan asteroids that are the mission's main targets. The Dinkinesh encounter serves as a first in-flight test of the spacecraft's terminal tracking …

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