露西：灵感和小行星

NASA’s Lucy mission will explore a record-breaking number of asteroids, flying by one asteroid in the solar system’s main asteroid belt, and by seven Trojan asteroids.

美国宇航局的露西任务将探索破纪录的小行星，飞过太阳系主小行星带的一颗小行星，以及七颗特洛伊小行星。

This illustration is of the Lucy mission’s seven targets: the binary asteroid Patroclus/Menoetius, Eurybates, Orus, Leucus, Polymele, and the main belt asteroid DonaldJohanson.

这张插图是露西任务的七个目标:双星小行星普特洛克勒斯/墨诺提乌斯、欧律贝茨、欧律斯、留科斯、波利梅尔和主带小行星唐纳德·约翰森。

Lucy is scheduled to launch on Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021, at 5:34 a.m. EDT.

露西计划于2021年10月16日星期六，即美国东部时间上午5:34发射。

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Image Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab

图片来源：美国宇航局/戈达德航天飞行中心概念图像实验室