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Lucy mission asteroid targets

Lucy mission asteroid targets
Lucy mission asteroid targets NASA's Lucy mission will visit 7 of Jupiter's Trojan asteroids. Top row, from left: Patroclus and Menoetius, which orbit each other as a binary asteroid, and Eurybates (not pictured: Eurybates' small moon Queta). Bottom row, from left: Orus, Leucus, Polymele, and main belt asteroid DonaldJohanson, which Lucy will visit in 2025. The largest asteroid is Patroclus, with a diameter of about 113 km (70 miles). The smallest is DonaldJohanson, with a diameter of about 4 km (2-3 miles). NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center