Preview: Colleague Bob Zimmerman explains the NASA Lucy mission to study Jupiter's Trojans. More missions later
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 1 March 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever wondered what your last meal would be? |
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| 0:39.5 | This is John Batchel. |
| 0:41.5 | Bob Zimmer, my good colleague behind the black, |
| 0:44.6 | profiles Lucy, a NASA probe, very successful, |
| 0:48.3 | headed to the Trojans of Jupiter, |
| 0:51.2 | the planetismals and leftover formation of the solar system that proceed and follow |
| 0:57.0 | the planets. |
| 0:57.8 | We have Trojans on Earth as well. |
| 1:00.6 | Bob Zimmerman introduces Lucy doing very well, thank you. |
| 1:03.8 | More of this tonight. |
| 1:05.7 | Well, Lucy is interesting because it isn't an acronym, which I thank them for. |
| 1:10.4 | It's actually named after the first the fossil human remains, I think was early human version. |
| 1:18.0 | Archaeology, interesting choice. |
| 1:20.1 | But Lucy is a mission to go to the Trojan asteroids that circle in Jupiter's orbit. |
| 1:26.1 | And it's on its way out there right now. |
| 1:28.5 | It's already going to flyby of one main belt asteroid that's nearer to us than the |
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