Friday, April 10, 2026 7pm to 8pm
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2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, CO 80309
https://www.colorado.edu/fiske/shows/concerts-special-events/nasas-lucy-mission-updates-and-mainbelt-encounters #fiskeplanetariumNASA’s Lucy Mission launched in October of 2021 and will be the first to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. By the end of its twelve-year mission, the spacecraft will have flown by a record-breaking number of asteroids for a single mission (eleven and counting!). Four and a half years into the mission, Lucy has passed through the main asteroid belt and is bound for its first Trojan encounter in August of next year. What has the Lucy team been up to in the meantime? Looking at asteroids, of course! In November of 2023 and April of 2025, the spacecraft collected data as it passed by two asteroids in the main belt. While these encounters acted as engineering dress rehearsals for the instruments onboard, Lucy scientists have taken these unique opportunities to analyze and study the data on these never-before visited asteroids. Join a Lucy scientist for a guided journey through images and findings from inside the main belt. Stick around for a preview of what’s next for the mission and what the scientists hope to learn from the Trojan asteroid flybys in the near future.
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