{"id":4351,"date":"2021-12-14T16:11:45","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T23:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/astronomy-and-planetary-science\/?p=4351"},"modified":"2021-12-14T16:21:40","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T23:21:40","slug":"lucy-in-the-sky-with-asteroids-planetary-astronomers-on-team-supporting-first-nasa-mission-to-outer-solar-system-bodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/lucy-in-the-sky-with-asteroids-planetary-astronomers-on-team-supporting-first-nasa-mission-to-outer-solar-system-bodies\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucy in the sky with asteroids: Planetary astronomers on team supporting first NASA mission to outer solar system bodies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.nau.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/9957_josh_emery_20201002-768x512.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Josh Emery\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Planetary astronomer Josh Emery, professor in Northern Arizona University\u2019s Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science, leads the Surface Composition Working Group (SCWG) for the [LUCY] mission. It\u2019s his job to help plan the observations of the targets that are required to answer the open science questions about Trojan asteroids. The group will determine what materials the asteroids are made of as they search for ice, complex organic molecules and rocky material that will indicate where in the solar system the Trojan asteroids formed.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nau.edu\/emery-lucy-probe\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planetary astronomer Josh Emery, professor in Northern Arizona University\u2019s Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science, leads the Surface Composition Working Group (SCWG) for the [LUCY] mission. It\u2019s his job to help plan the observations of the targets that are required to answer the open science questions about Trojan asteroids. The group will determine what materials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,187],"tags":[205,206],"class_list":["post-4351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-astronomy-and-planetary-science","tag-lucy","tag-trojan-asteroids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4351"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4359,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4351\/revisions\/4359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}