asteroid discovery

Lucy: Mission to the Trojan Asteroids – Solar System Fossils

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Lucy is a NASA space probe on a twelve-year mission to eight different asteroids, visiting a main belt asteroid as well as seven Jupiter trojans. What are Trojan asteroids? For any given Two body system in space (both bodies are having mass) orbiting each other, there exist 5 points (called Lagrange points) in their orbital … Read more

10 Citizen Science Programs where you can make Astronomical Discoveries

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First of all, what is citizen science? According to Wikipedia – Citizen science is scientific research conducted by amateur scientists. Citizen science is sometimes described as “public participation in scientific research,” whose outcomes are often advancements in scientific research by improving the scientific communities capacity, as well as increasing the public’s understanding of science. Role … Read more

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