Moon Discovered Around Asteroid Polymele by NASA's Lucy Team - SciTechDaily

Even before its launch in October 2021, NASA’s Lucy mission was already on course to break records by visiting more asteroids than any previous mission. Now, the mission can add one more asteroid to the list, after a surprise result from a long-running observ…

ByKatherine Kretke, Southwest Research InstituteAugust 16, 2022 Lucy will explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids thought to be fossils of planet formation. Credit: NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center E… [+3968 chars]

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