Dr. Marc Buie, SWRI in Boulder will give a presentation about the Lucy Mission. The Lucy mission is a NASA space probe launched on October 16, 2021, designed to explore a group of asteroids known as the Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter’s orbit around the Sun. Over its planned 12-year mission, Lucy will conduct flybys of several asteroids to gather data about the early solar system and the formation of planets.
Marc William Buie is an American astronomer and prolific discoverer of minor planets who works at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado in the Space Science Department.[ Formerly he worked at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, and was the Sentinel Space Telescope Mission Scientist for the B612 Foundation, which is dedicated to protecting Earth from asteroid impact events.
The meeting will be at the First Evangelical Lutheran Church, 803 Third Avenue, Longmont, CO 80501. If you cannot attend the in-person meeting, it will be available on Zoom. Marc will present in person. Video of the meeting will be available on the LAS member portal website https://members.longmontastro.org a couple days after the presentation