Levison, Harold F. and Olkin, Catherine B. and Noll, Keith S. and Marchi, Simone and Bell, James F., III and Bierhaus, Edward and Binzel, Richard and Bottke, William and Britt, Dan and Brown, Michael and Buie, Marc and Christensen, Phil and Emery, Joshua and Grundy, Will and Hamilton, Victoria E. and Howett, Carly and Mottola, Stefano and Pätzold, Martin and Reuter, Dennis and Spencer, John and Statler, Thomas S. and Stern, S. Alan and Sunshine, Jessica and Weaver, Harold and Wong, Ian (2021) Lucy Mission to the Trojan Asteroids: Science Goals. Planetary Science Journal, 2 (5). Art. No. 171. ISSN 2632-3338. doi:10.3847/psj/abf840. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20210914-225401638
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The Lucy Mission is a NASA Discovery-class mission to send a highly capable and robust spacecraft to investigate seven primitive bodies near both the L4 and L5 Lagrange points with Jupiter: the Jupiter Trojan asteroids. These planetesimals from the outer planetary system have been preserved since early in solar system history. The Lucy mission will fly by and extensively study a diverse selection of Trojan asteroids, including all the recognized taxonomic classes, a collisional family member, and a near equal-mass binary. It will visit objects with diameters ranging from roughly 1 km to 100 km. The payload suite consists of a color camera and infrared imaging spectrometer, a high-resolution panchromatic imager, and a thermal infrared spectrometer. Additionally, two spacecraft subsystems will also contribute to the science investigations: the terminal tracking cameras will supplement imaging during closest approach and the telecommunication subsystem will be used to measure the mass of the Trojans. The science goals are derived from the 2013 Planetary Decadal Survey and include determining the surface composition, assessing the geology, determining the bulk properties, and searching for satellites and rings.
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Additional Information: | © 2021. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society. Original content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI. Received 2021 March 8; revised 2021 April 13; accepted 2021 April 14; published 2021 August 24. The authors thank the entire Lucy mission team for their hard work and dedication. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Subject Keywords: | Jupiter trojans; Flyby missions | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Issue or Number: | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification Code: | Unified Astronomy Thesaurus concepts: Jupiter trojans (874); Flyby missions (545) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.3847/psj/abf840 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Official Citation: | Harold F. Levison et al 2021 Planet. Sci. J. 2 171 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Deposited By: | George Porter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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