'Planet formation and evolution models suggest that the Trojan asteroids are likely remnant of the same primordial material that formed the outer planets, and thus serve as time capsules from the birth of our solar system over 4 billion years ago,' SwRI representatives wrote in a Lucy mission description.

Lucy will be the first spacecraft to get an up-close look at any Trojan, and its observations could be revelatory. There are two groups of Trojans: one that 'leads' Jupiter around our star and one that 'trails' the giant planet.ДЄstronomers have catalogued more than 7,000 Trojans to date, but the total population of the space rocks is much higher, perhaps even rivaling that of the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, Levison said. RELATED ARTICLE: Could Solar Explosions Spark Northern Lights in Several States This Total Lunar Eclipse?Д¬heck out more news and information on Space in Science Times.Lucy's main science targets are Trojan asteroids, space rocks that loop around the sun in Jupiter's orbit. Related information about NASA's November highlight is shown on NASA JPL's YouTube video below: It will be the first-ever space mission to explore such a distinctive group of asteroids, offering new understandings about the solar system's formation and early history. The LucyВ spacecraft launched from Space Launch Complex 41 in mid-October 2021, at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. One funny thing to note about the Pleiades this November is that many of the eight asteroids to the Lucy mission of NASA are located in that part of the sky. The Pleiades star cluster, as described in В that leads the constellations Taurus the Bull and the hunter Orion, followed by Sirius, the brightest star in the sky, all of them back to accompany watchers on the long winter nights in the Northern Hemisphere. They are pretty faint to view minus a massive telescope, although their positions in the sky are close to the Pleiades star cluster. Sky chart that shows sites of many of the Trojan asteroids that NASA's recently launched Lucy spacecraft is set to visit. The Northern winter skies' familiar stars are returning late, rising late in the evening and sitting high by dawn in the south. This whole month, if one is up late and cast his gaze toward the east, he'll be able to observe some familiar companions have started rising late in the evening. Partial lunar eclipses might not be quite as remarkable as complete total lunar eclipses, where the Moon is fully covered in the shadow of Earth, although they take place more often.

It is therefore essential to check the timing of the eclipse's visibility in a particular area.ДЇor the United States East Coast observers, the partial eclipse starts a litter after 2 a.m., approaching its maximum at 4 a.m. The aforementioned is a massive swath of Earth that we will see at least a portion of the eclipse, which includes North and South America, Australia, the Pacific Region. Depending on the location's it will take place earlier or later in the evening.

If the weather allows, the eclipse will be seen from any site where the Moon appears on top of the horizon during the eclipse. (Photo : Stephen Rahn from Macon on Wikimedia Commons)ДЄ partial lunar eclipse is about to occur overnight on November 18 and 19, when the Moon slips into the shadow of Earth for several hours.

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