NASA LUCY Mission with Prof. Hal Levison | On Things to Come

 On Things to Come Webinar

NASA LUCY Mission

 

Speaker: Harold F. Levison (SwRI Boulder, USA) 

Wednesday, 22 September 2021 

9 am GMT+8


Watch it on Zoom or Bilibili

Zoom Meeting: 842 4524 7793
   


As the first-ever mission to the Trojan asteroids, Lucy will survey this enigmatic population of small bodies that orbit the Sun beyond the main asteroid belt - trapped by Jupiter and the Sun so that they have led and followed Jupiter in its orbit. As these never before explored asteroids are in many ways “fossils” from the formation and evolution of the planets, the Lucy spacecraft is named in honor of the fossilized human ancestor discovered the year after Pioneer 11 began its journey out of the Solar System. Lucy’s name was inspired by the Beatles’ song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.”

 



 

About Prof. Levison 


Dr. Levison's principal research interests lie in the area of the dynamics of astronomical objects. In particular, he focuses on the formation and long-term behavior of the solar system bodies. His work includes studies of the formation of both giant and terrestrial planets, the long-term dynamical behavior of comets, the dynamics of objects in the Kuiper belt, the origin and stability of Trojan asteroids, and the formation of satellites. In 1997, he, with Martin Duncan, predicted the existence of the Scattered Comet Disk. He is best known for his work on the early dynamical evolution of the outer Solar System.

 
 Schedule

23 September 2020
4 pm (GMT+8)
Geraint Jones – ESA Comet Interceptor Mission [YouTube/Youku]
21 October 2020 
8 pm (GMT+8)
Ralph Lorenz – NASA Dragonfly Mission [YouTube/Youku]
4 November 2020
4 pm (GMT+8)
Wang Chi – ESA SMILE Mission [YouTube/Youku]
25 November 2020
4 pm (GMT+8)
Heike Rauer – ESA PLATO Mission [YouTube/Youku]
9 December 2020
4 pm (GMT+8)
Takehiko Satoh – JAXA Akatsuki Mission [YouTube/Bilibili]
18 December 2020
4 pm (GMT+8)
Olivier Witasse – ESA JUICE Mission [YouTube/Bilibili]
21 December 2020
4 pm (GMT+8)
Tomohiro Usui – JAXA MMX Mission [YouTube/Bilibili]
13 January 2021
4 pm (GMT+8)
Weiqun Gan – CAS ASO-S Mission [YouTube/Bilibili] 
27 January 2021
4 pm (GMT+8)
Giovanna Tinetti – ESA Ariel Mission [YouTube/Bilibili] 
24 February 2021
4 pm (GMT+8)
Johannes Benkhoff – ESA BepiColombo Mission I [YouTube/Bilibili] 
10 March 2021
4 pm (GMT+8)
Gabriele Cremonese – ESA BepiColombo Mission II  [YouTube/Bilibili] 
24 March 2021
4 pm (GMT+8)
Go Murakami – ESA BepiColombo Mission III [YouTube/Bilibili] 
7 April 2021
4 pm (GMT+8)
Yoshifumi Saito – ESA BepiColombo Mission IV [YouTube/Bilibili] 
14 April 2021
4 pm (GMT+8)
Daniel Mueller – ESA Solar Orbiter Mission I [YouTube/Bilibili] 
21 April 2021
4 pm (GMT+8)
Stefano Vitale – ESA LISA Mission [YouTube/Bilibili] 
6 May 2021
9 am (GMT+8)
Andy Cheng – NASA DART Mission [YouTube/Bilibili] 
12 May 2021
9 am (GMT+8)
Robert Pappalardo – NASA Europa Clipper [YouTube/Bilibili] 
19 May 2021
4 pm (GMT+8)
Saem Krucker – ESA Solar Orbiter Mission II Watch
25 May 2021
4 pm (GMT+8)
Sami Solanki – ESA Solar Orbiter Mission III Watch
2 June 2021
4 pm (GMT+8)
Athena Coustenis – ESA's ExoMars Missions Watch
9 June 2021
4 pm (GMT+8)
Yuan Weimin – CAS Einstein Probe Mission Watch
16 June 2021
10 am (GMT+8)
Evgenya Shkolnik – NASA SPARCS Mission Watch
30 June 2021
4 pm (GMT+8)
Ren Laurelijs – ESA EUCLID Mission Watch
7 July 2021
4 pm (GMT+8)
ZHAN Hu – CMS Chinese Space Station Telescope Watch
14 July 2021
4 pm (GMT+8)
Tomoko Arai – JAXA DESTINY+ Mission Watch
21 July 2021
4 pm (GMT+8)
Micheal K ppers – ESA HERA Mission Watch
25 August 2021
4 pm (GMT+8) 
LI Zhengqiang – CAS Gaofen-5 Watch
9 Sept. 2021
10 am (GMT+8)
Lindy Elkins-Tanton – NASA Psyche Mission 
15 Sept. 2021
4 pm (GMT+8) 
LIN Honglei – CAS Tianwen-1 
22 Sept. 2021
9 am (GMT+8)
Hal Levison – NASA Lucy Mission 
29 Sept. 2021
9 am (GMT+8)
Ralph McNutt – NASA Interstellar Probe 

 

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