Jupiter's Trojans and the LUCY mission on the way to explore them
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Raphael Marschall, CNRS, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur and member of the LUCY scientific committee
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Astronomy, Celestial Mechanics, Planetary Science and seminar by Alessandro Morbidelli, Professor at the Collège de France
Hosted by Collège de France
Wednesday 16:45–17:45 Paris (GMT+1)
Recording available
This lecture connects the properties of the giant planets to their diverse populations of moons and co-orbiting small bodies. It focuses on irregular satellites, whose inclined and elongated orbits suggest capture, and on Trojan objects that move around stable configurations associated with Jupiter or Neptune.