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April 9 & 10 at 7pm

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launched in October of 2021 and will be the first to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. By the end of its twelve-year mission, the spacecraft will have flown by a record-breaking number of asteroids for a single mission (eleven and counting!). Four and a half years into the mission, Lucy has passed through the main asteroid belt and is bound for its first Trojan encounter in August of next year. What has the Lucy team been up to in the meantime? Looking at asteroids, of course! In November of 2023 and April of 2025, the spacecraft collected data as it passed by two asteroids in the main belt. While these encounters acted as engineering dress rehearsals for the instruments onboard, Lucy scientists have taken these unique opportunities to analyze and study the data on these never-before visited asteroids. Join a Lucy scientist for a guided journey through images and findings from inside the main belt. Stick around for a preview of what’s next for the mission and what the scientists hope to learn from the Trojan asteroid flybys in the near future.

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$12 Adult general admissionÌý
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April 9: Join Simone Marchi, Lucy Mission Deputy Principal Investigator, for a guided journey through images and findings from inside the main belt.

is an Institute Scientist at Southwest Research in Boulder. His interests cover the formation and geology of the terrestrial planets, the Moon, and asteroids. He is involved in several active space missions, including the Deputy Principal Investigator for the NASA Lucy mission, and Co-Investigator of the NASA Psyche mission, NASA Dawn mission, and ESA BepiColombo, and ESA JUICE mission. Marchi has won awards for his studies of the impact histories of terrestrial planets and asteroids and early evolution of the Solar System, has published a popular science book titled Colliding Worlds, and has an asteroid named after him: Asteroid 72543 Simonemarchi.Ìý

April 10: Join John Spencer, Lucy Mission Deputy Project Scientist, for a guided journey through images and findings from inside the main belt.Ìý

is a Deputy Project Scientist on the Lucy mission. John is responsible for leading the planning of the observations Lucy will take during its flybys of its Trojan targets. ÌýA native of England, he obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Geology at the University of Cambridge in 1978, and a PhD in Planetary Science from the University of Arizona in 1987, and has worked at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado since 2004. ÌýHis scientific work has included study of Jupiter’s moons with ground-based telescopes and the Hubble Space Telescope, and spacecraft observations of the Jovian and Saturnian moons, Pluto, and Kuiper Belt Objects as a member of the Galileo, Cassini, and New Horizons science teams. ÌýHe was elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2021, and asteroid 7554 Johnspencer is named for him.