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'Right now, we are in what has to be a Golden Age of asteroid exploration.' Scientists celebrate NASA's latest space rock flyby

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Asteroid experts are pondering the scientific output from the NASA Lucy spacecraft.

The Lucy spacecraft shot by Donaldjohanson as a test run to the main event: visiting the never-before-explored Trojan asteroids in the Jupiter system.

In November 2023 , Lucy flew past the tiny main belt asteroid Dinkinesh, revealing unexpected discoveries.

Lucy spacecraft will encounter Trojan asteroids Patroclus and Meneotius in March 2033 .

Lucy is outfitted with a plaque that includes messages from prominent thinkers of our time and a diagram showing the positions of the planets on the date of Lucy 's launch.

Lucy will fly on a stable orbit between the Earth and the Trojan asteroids for about two million years .

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