Lucy Mission Search Plans for Activity around Its Jovian Trojan Flyby Targets

Activity in small bodies, defined here as the episodic or continuous release of material, was long thought to be exclusively a behavior of comets, but it has since been discovered in some centaurs, main-belt asteroids, and near-Earth asteroids. To date, however, no activity has been discovered on Jo...

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Published in:	The Planetary Science Journal
Main Authors:	S. Alan Stern, Carly Howett, Neil Dello Russo, Harold A. Weaver, James F. Bell III, Dennis Reuter, Amy Simon, Hannah Kaplan, Keith Noll, John Spencer, Simone Marchi, Hal Levison
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	IOP Publishing 2025-01-01
Subjects:	Jupiter trojans Small Solar System bodies Coma dust Neutral coma gases
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ade707