
Leaders of the Lucy asteroid mission
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
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Moonsa Matthew Easton in Virginia
Mathone rides in a dust ring, a close inpartial arc separate from the main ice rings. Her orbit varies along and around this arc every 450 days because of a resonence with the dreaded mimus. So will we still catalogue it as a moon a century from now? Or an electrostatic dust storm rafting a gravitational river? I can't handle terran dust bunnies. Imagine trying to climb out of a bagless bean bag in zero g. i advise not landing there until we know how to handle lunar and arian or martian dust.
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