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HOUSTON—Launched Oct. 16, 2021, NASA’s Lucy mission spacecraft sped close by the Earth late Dec. 12 for a second gravity assist to place the probe on a course for the first flybys of five Trojan asteroids and three of their moons. The Trojans are early Solar System remnants that orbit the Sun in a...
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