**Lucy spacecraft zooms past first asteroid on its way to Jupiter.**

Nasa’s Lucy spacecraft has completed its first flyby of an asteroid, the tiny Dinkinesh. The flyby was a ‘dry run’ for the bigger and more alluring asteroids ahead. Dinkinesh is just half a mile across, quite possibly the smallest of the space rocks on Lucy’s tour. Lucy’s main targets are the so-called Trojans, swarms of unexplored asteroids near Jupiter that are considered to be time capsules from the dawn of the solar system. The spacecraft will swing past eight Trojans believed to be up to 10 to 100 times bigger than Dinkinesh. It is due to zip past the final two asteroids in 2033.

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