File:Lucy spacecraft trajectory.png

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DescriptionLucy spacecraft trajectory.png	English: This diagram illustrates Lucy's orbital path. The spacecraft’s path (green) is shown in a frame of reference where Jupiter remains stationary, giving the trajectory its pretzel-like shape. After launch in October 2021, Lucy has two close Earth flybys before encountering its Trojan targets. In the L4 cloud Lucy will fly by (3548) Eurybates (white), (15094) Polymele (pink), (11351) Leucus (red), and (21900) Orus (red) from 2027-2028. After diving past Earth again Lucy will visit the L5 cloud and encounter the (617) Patroclus-Menoetius binary (pink) in 2033. As a bonus, in 2025 on the way to the L4, Lucy flies by a small Main Belt asteroid, (52246) Donaldjohanson (white), named for the discoverer of the Lucy fossil. After flying by the Patroclus-Menoetius binary in 2033, Lucy will continue cycling between the two Trojan clouds every six years
Date	3 August 2017
Source	NASA https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/lucy-the-first-mission-to-jupiter-s-trojans
Author	NASA

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English

Orbital path of spacecraft Lucy.

German

Flugbahn der Raumsonde Lucy.

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