MARS: CURIOSITY WHEELS. BOB ZIMMERMAN BEHINDTHEBLACK.COM
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 26 April 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:49.5 | and we're chasing Lucy. Remind us of Lucy Bob and that wonderful name the probe has. Good evening to you. |
| 0:56.3 | Yeah, good evening, John. Lucy is named after the African fossils, that early human, |
| 1:04.2 | humanoid. And they did that to honor the discovery of that, having nothing to do with asteroids. |
| 1:09.6 | So what? It's just a cool name. |
| 1:11.5 | Lucy is on its way to do, to look at about eight to ten asteroids in the Trojan |
| 1:17.7 | asteroids that orbit in front of and behind Jupiter in Jupiter's orbit. |
| 1:24.1 | But on this way, it's passing several other asteroids in the main belt, |
| 1:27.7 | asteroid belt, which is closer to us. And so this week, it flew past an asteroid called |
| 1:33.5 | Donald Johansen. And it sent back pictures. The flyby was good. They're still waiting to |
| 1:39.5 | get all the data out of it. But they posted a series, they posted a short movie produced from the approach |
| 1:46.3 | images before it flew past. |
| 1:48.6 | And so I posted one of those up, and you can click on the picture and see the actual |
| 1:52.2 | movie. |
| 1:53.0 | And they approached it. |
| 1:53.9 | This is, once again, looks like it's a binary asteroid that has stuck together. |
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