{"id":123633,"date":"2021-10-15T08:00:28","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=123633"},"modified":"2021-10-14T12:37:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T16:37:31","slug":"ucf-part-of-nasa-mission-launching-saturday-to-explore-trojan-asteroids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-part-of-nasa-mission-launching-saturday-to-explore-trojan-asteroids\/","title":{"rendered":"UCF Part of NASA Mission Launching Saturday to Explore Trojan Asteroids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UCF Physics Professor Dan Britt is counting down to Saturday morning when NASA\u2019s Lucy mission is set to blast off from the Space Coast.<\/p>\n<p>Britt, a physicist and geologist, is part of the science team that will analyze the data Lucy collects from the Trojan asteroids near Jupiter. This area of the solar system is believed to hold remnants of the primordial material that formed the outer planets and could hold some answers about how the solar system formed.<\/p>\n<p>The spacecraft will visit eight asteroids in a region of space that has never been visited before. NASA refers to the more than 7,000 asteroids in this region \u201ctime capsules from the birth of our solar system.\u201d &nbsp;The mission, led by Harold &#8220;Hal&#8221; Levison&nbsp;from the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, is named after Lucy \u2014 the fossilized human remains found in Ethiopia in 1974. The skeleton was critical to understanding certain stages of human evolution.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-professors-research-part-first-mission-jupiters-trojan-asteroids\/\">&nbsp;NASA\u2019s mission promises to provide similar insight about Earth and the solar system, Britt says.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou get a great view from there,\u201d Britt says. \u201cIt\u2019s a bit of an early day with the launch window, but it will be worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-109740 img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/05\/DanBritt-2-226x300.jpg\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/05\/DanBritt-2-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/05\/DanBritt-2-602x800.jpg 602w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/05\/DanBritt-2-386x512.jpg 386w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/05\/DanBritt-2-301x400.jpg 301w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/05\/DanBritt-2-271x360.jpg 271w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/05\/DanBritt-2.jpg 674w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-109740 img-fluid lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20226%20300%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20226%20300%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E 226w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/05\/DanBritt-2-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/05\/DanBritt-2-602x800.jpg 602w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/05\/DanBritt-2-386x512.jpg 386w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/05\/DanBritt-2-301x400.jpg 301w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/05\/DanBritt-2-271x360.jpg 271w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/05\/DanBritt-2.jpg 674w\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/05\/DanBritt-2-226x300.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Britt is no stranger to NASA missions. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/pegasus\/not-simply-red\/\">In 2012 when the Mars Curiosity rover landed and began beaming back rich photos of the planet\u2019s surface, it was in large part thanks to Britt we were able to see the colors.<\/a> He invited the color calibration targets on the rover. Britt also leads the NASA-funded <a href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/class\/\">Center for Lunar and Asteroid Surface Science (CLASS) based at UCF<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The main reason Britt was asked to join the team was because he and his former student <strong>Robert Macke \u201910PhD<\/strong>, who studied <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/degree\/physics-phd\/\">physics<\/a>, have analyzed and documented the density and porosity of 1,500 meteorites that represent the asteroids. You could say he is one of the foremost experts on alien rocks. Macke is now the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/pegasus\/issues\/spring-2021\/\">curator of the Vatican Meteorite Collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Britt\u2019s role during the Lucy mission will be to work with the other scientists and try to figure out what the Trojan asteroids are made of and why they are composed that way. By understanding the density of asteroids and their structures, scientists will better understand how they were created and evolved over time.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike NASA\u2019s OSIRIS REx mission (also includes a UCF researcher), which collected an asteroid sample, Lucy will provide digital data, which Britt and others will analyze. The Trojans are just too far away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis mission is another way to learn about our solar neighborhood,\u201d Britt says. \u201cDiscovery is a whole lot of fun and the funny thing is that we know a bit about the laws of nature, but we don\u2019t really know which rules apply more given any particular situation. We have some educated guesses, but until we get there, we won\u2019t know for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physics Professor Dan Britt is part of team that will analyze data from first trip to this part of the solar system<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":123634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[5,6,23],"tags":[982,1775,14916,4361],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-123633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colleges","category-community","category-research","tag-college-of-sciences","tag-florida-space-instit","tag-research","tag-space"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UCF Part of NASA Mission Launching Saturday to Explore Trojan Asteroids | University of Central Florida News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Physics Professor Dan Britt is part of team that will analyze data from first trip to this part of the solar system\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-part-of-nasa-mission-launching-saturday-to-explore-trojan-asteroids\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UCF Part of NASA Mission Launching Saturday to Explore Trojan Asteroids\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Physics Professor Dan Britt is part of team that will analyze data from first trip to this part of the solar system\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-part-of-nasa-mission-launching-saturday-to-explore-trojan-asteroids\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"University of Central Florida News | UCF Today\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UCF\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-10-15T12:00:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2021\/10\/WEBfinal_lucy_high-end-render_pira.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Zenaida Kotala\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@UCF\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@UCF\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Zenaida Kotala\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/ucf-part-of-nasa-mission-launching-saturday-to-explore-trojan-asteroids\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/ucf-part-of-nasa-mission-launching-saturday-to-explore-trojan-asteroids\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Zenaida Kotala\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/4f0fdedfa744a8bfddd06132e6ce9b5e\"},\"headline\":\"UCF Part of NASA Mission Launching Saturday to Explore Trojan Asteroids\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-10-15T12:00:28+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/ucf-part-of-nasa-mission-launching-saturday-to-explore-trojan-asteroids\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":487,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/ucf-part-of-nasa-mission-launching-saturday-to-explore-trojan-asteroids\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/wp-content\\\/blogs.dir\\\/20\\\/files\\\/2021\\\/10\\\/WEBfinal_lucy_high-end-render_pira.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"College of Sciences\",\"Florida Space institute\",\"Research\",\"space\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Colleges &amp; 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