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Lucy Exploring Jupiter’s Trojans Peter Haun and Cari Schuette
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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 ●Skeleton dates from sometime between 3.22 and 3.18 million years ago
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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 ●Skeleton dates from sometime between 3.22 and 3.18 million years ago
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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 2028 21900 1999 VQ10- D-type Trojan, October 2028 617 Patroclus- P-type Trojan binary, March 2032
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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
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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
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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
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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 assist ●Flyby a binary asteroid
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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 assist ●Flyby a binary asteroid
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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 assist ●Flyby a binary asteroid
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What we’re doing while we’re there Payload: ●High resolution visible imager ●Optical and near-infrared imaging spectrometer ●Thermal infrared spectrometer
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What we’re doing while we’re there Payload: ●High resolution visible imager ●Optical and near-infrared imaging spectrometer ●Thermal infrared spectrometer
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What we’re doing while we’re there Payload: ●High resolution visible imager ●Optical and near-infrared imaging spectrometer ●Thermal infrared spectrometer
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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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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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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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