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NASA's Lucy Mission has locked in on a new target asteroid. An extra space rock has been designated for NASA's Jupiter Trojan asteroid-scouting mission to explore, bringing the program's total number of space rocks to 10 so far.
NASA will test the spacecraft’s asteroid-tracking navigation system during the impromptu encounter, slated for November.
The Lucy mission will visit main-belt asteroid 1999 VD57 in November, allowing the spacecraft to test its innovative target tracking system before reaching its primary science targets in 2025.
Stargazers should start dusting off their telescopes as October night skies will offer displays of two meteor showers and one full moon.
The European Space Agency's Gaia and NASA's James Webb are both currently orbiting the Lagranage point 2 (L2), roughly one million miles from Earth.