Nasa’s Lucy spacecraft swoops past first of 10 asteroids on journey to Jupiter

Lucy’s main targets are the so-called Trojans, swarms of asteroids near Jupiter considered to be time capsules from the dawn of the solar system.

Nasa’s Lucy spacecraft on Wednesday encountered the first of 10 asteroids on its long journey to Jupiter.

We expect that Lucy is at its closest approach to asteroid Dinkinesh at just 270 miles away. But it's a quick hello, as Lucy speeds by the half-mile-wide asteroid at 10,000 mph !Lucy’s main targets are the so-called Trojans, swarms of unexplored asteroids near Jupiter that are considered to be time capsules from the dawn of the solar system.

Nasa launched Lucy two years ago. The spacecraft is named after the 3.2 million-year-old skeletal remains of a human ancestor found in Ethiopia in the 1970s.

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