Lucy Exploring Jupiters Trojans Peter Haun and Cari Schuette Who was Lucy Ancient hominid Found in Ethiopia in 1974 Found 40 of the skeleton Led us to greater understanding of humans origin and past ID: 764040
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LucyExploring Jupiter’s Trojans Peter Haun and Cari Schuette
Who was Lucy? Ancient hominid Found in Ethiopia in 1974 Found 40% of the skeleton Led us to greater understanding of humans origin and pastSkeleton dates from sometime between 3.22 and 3.18 million years ago
Who was Lucy? Ancient hominid Found in Ethiopia in 1974 Found 40% of the skeleton Led us to greater understanding of humans origin and pastSkeleton dates from sometime between 3.22 and 3.18 million years ago
Where we’re going Launch, October 2021 52246 1981 EQ5- main belt, April 2025 3548 Eurybates- C-type Trojan, August 2027 11351 1997 TS25- SEO April 202821900 1999 VQ10- D-type Trojan, October 2028617 Patroclus- P-type Trojan binary, March 2032
Trojans (and Greeks) - Asteroids which share their orbit with other planets or moons - Do not collide with it because they orbit in one of the Lagrangian points of stability - Potentially Kuiper Belt objects or accumulation of protoplanetary disk
Trojans (and Greeks) - Asteroids which share their orbit with other planets or moons - Do not collide with it because they orbit in one of the Lagrangian points of stability - Potentially Kuiper Belt objects or accumulation of protoplanetary disk
Trojans (and Greeks) - Asteroids which share their orbit with other planets or moons - Do not collide with it because they orbit in one of the Lagrangian points of stability - Potentially Kuiper Belt objects or accumulation of protoplanetary disk
How we’re getting there Solar electric propulsion for changes in course Use Earth Gravity assist to maintain path Flyby of one main belt asteroid Flyby earth for second gravity assistFlyby a binary asteroid
How we’re getting there Solar electric propulsion for changes in course Use Earth Gravity assist to maintain path Flyby of one main belt asteroid Flyby earth for second gravity assistFlyby a binary asteroid
How we’re getting there Solar electric propulsion for changes in course Use Earth Gravity assist to maintain path Flyby of one main belt asteroid Flyby earth for second gravity assistFlyby a binary asteroid
What we’re doing while we’re there Payload: High resolution visible imager Optical and near-infrared imaging spectrometer Thermal infrared spectrometer
What we’re doing while we’re there Payload: High resolution visible imager Optical and near-infrared imaging spectrometer Thermal infrared spectrometer
What we’re doing while we’re there Payload: High resolution visible imager Optical and near-infrared imaging spectrometer Thermal infrared spectrometer
What do we expect to learn from this? Questions we hope to answer: What were the initial stages, conditions and processes of Solar System formation? How did the giant planets accrete, and is there evidence that they migrated to new orbital positions? What governed the accretion, and what roles did bombardment by large projectiles play?What were the sources of primordial organic matter?What are the differences in the properties of the Kuiper Belt objects versus those within the orbit of the planets?
What do we expect to learn from this? Questions we hope to answer: What were the initial stages, conditions and processes of Solar System formation? How did the giant planets accrete, and is there evidence that they migrated to new orbital positions? What governed the accretion, and what roles did bombardment by large projectiles play?What were the sources of primordial organic matter?What are the differences in the properties of the Kuiper Belt objects versus those within the orbit of the planets?
What do we expect to learn from this? Questions we hope to answer: What were the initial stages, conditions and processes of Solar System formation? How did the giant planets accrete, and is there evidence that they migrated to new orbital positions? What governed the accretion, and what roles did bombardment by large projectiles play?What were the sources of primordial organic matter?What are the differences in the properties of the Kuiper Belt objects versus those within the orbit of the planets?
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