I'm John Batchel with Behind the Blacks, Bob Zimmerman.

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We're going exploring with Bob.

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Exploring with, Bob, who is Lucy?

Remind me, I get confused about these cute space names.

Oh, well, Lucy is interesting because it isn't an acronym, which I thank them for.

It's actually named after the first the fossil human remains, I think was early human

version.

Archaeology, interesting choice.

But Lucy is a mission to go to the Trojan asteroids that circle in Jupiter's orbit.

And it's on its way out there right now.

It's already, we did a flyby of one main belt asteroid that's orbit. And it's on its way out there right now. It's already did a flyby of one main belt asteroid that's nearer to us than the Trojans.

It is now preparing for its second asteroid flyby in the main belt.

And it has got its first picture of that asteroid.

It's called Donald Johansson, the asteroid. And it has got its first picture of that asteroid. It's called Donald Johansen, the asteroid.

And it is still quite a distance away, about 45 million miles.

And the picture I've done on behind the black is basically just a dot.

But this is the first picture of that flyby.

The flyby will happen in April.

And this probe is moving towards, it's going to be hopping from

asteroid to asteroid in the Trojans over a period of several years and in 27 and 28

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