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A moon has been discovered on a polymer asteroid. A new exploration target for the Lucy spacecraft | sorae gateway to space

[▲ رسم توضيحي لكويكب بوليمير (الائتمان: مركز جودارد لرحلات الفضاء التابع لناسا)]

An asteroid probe launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in October 2021“Lucy”teeth,It aims to explore a total of eight asteroids, seven of which are in the Jupiter Trojan asteroids and one in the asteroid belt. If all goes well, it will visit more asteroids than any other mission to date, which is now on its mission list.new asteroidlikely to be added.

■ Is there a satellite on the asteroid Polimere?

20223the moon27On that day, Lucy’s mission team found one of their targets, an asteroid.Polymile“Butprivate satelliteI found that I have

polymele_satellite_separation_v2 Credit:NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

[▲ رسم توضيحي يوضح المسافة بين الكويكب بوليمير وقمره الصناعي (Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centre)]

On that day polymer will pass in front of the star“Enpei”It was expected to be noticed. Backbiting is a phenomenon in which a celestial body passes in front of another celestial body, obscuring the latter from the observer’s view. The best known example occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth, obscuring the Sun from our view.eclipsehe is.

The mission team consists of professional and amateur astronomers26team ofdistributed throughout the path where the ambiguity is visible, thePosition, size and shapeIt is measured with high accuracy and the blinking star is behind itOutlineIt was planned to be painted.

14team ofI reported noticing flashing stars during occultation, but two data points turned out to be different from the other. When the mission team analyzed the observation data, it was said that an object with a diameter of about 5 kilometers was detected at a distance of about 200 kilometers from the polymer. Also, the object has a maximum width of about27kmrevolve around polymer“Moon” (polymer satellite)Rated to be

shaun_discovery (Credit:NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center)

[▲بياناتمنمشاهداتالغيبكويكببوليميرعلىاليسار،مخططللقمرالصناعيالمكتشفحديثًاعلىاليمين(Credit:NASA’sGoddardSpaceFlightCentre)】

بعد اصطلاح تسمية الكويكب ،تم تأكيد المسارلن يتم إعطاء اسم رسمي للقمر الصناعي حتى أيضًا ، القمر الصناعي قريب جدًا من Polimere بحيث لا يمكن رؤيته بوضوح في التلسكوبات الأرضية أو المدارية.

لمعرفة المزيد ، استخدم ملاحظات الغيب مرة أخرى.سعيد الحظتبارك2027ستكون لوسي على كويكب في عام 2018قربلا بد لي من الانتظار حتى أفعل.

■ مهمة لوسي لتحديث

【▲ قائمة الكويكبات التي ستطير بها لوسي لاستكشافها (صورة خيالية). من اليسار إلى اليمين: الكويكبات المزدوجة Patroclus و Menoetios و Euribates. الصف السفلي من اليسار: أوراس ، لوكس ، بوليمير ، دونالد جوهانسون. تمتلك Eurybates قمرًا صناعيًا واحدًا (Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre Conceptual Image Lab)]

【▲ List of asteroids that Lucy will fly to explore (fantasy picture). From left to right: the double asteroids Patroclus, Menoetios, and Euribates. Bottom row from left: Oras, Lux, Polymer, Donald Johansson. Eurybates owns one satellite (Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab)]

Lucy’s team at first7two asteroidsHe was planning to exploreHowever, then, through the Hubble Space Telescope, the asteroid “Euribates” to be exploredsmall satelliteis found8Onehad become.

And this time, with the addition of the Polimere satellite,121 year trips9two asteroidsThey will be explored, plans have changed.

NASA scientistTom StatlerHe said, “Mission Lucy.”12general,7two asteroids,1“Two spacecraft”We started with the main phrase, but we have to keep changing the famous phrase in a good way.”

Connection:Lucy’s probe, like Voyager, carries a message for future humanity

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  • Image Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
  • NASA NASA’s Lucy team discovers the moon around the asteroid Polymily
  • NASA Watching a star twinkle to enlarge the size of asteroids on NASA’s Lucy mission

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