Seminar, Hosted by Collège de France
Jupiter's Trojans and the LUCY mission on the way to explore them
CNRS, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur and member of the LUCY scientific committee
Abstract
This seminar introduces the physical properties of Jupiter's Trojan asteroids and the scientific aims of NASA's Lucy mission. It reviews the mission's planned encounters as described at the time of the talk. It also discusses the 2023 discovery of a binary asteroid whose companion has a contact-binary structure.