High-Level Project Summary
Our team created a drawing to show that science and art go hand in hand. With our creation we hope that all scientists and others who are working for the Lucy mission feel represented and we want to inspire more people to become interested in asteroids.
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Detailed Project Description
The idea for the project came about because we have the art of drawing as a hobby and we decided to connect it to our passion for the history of the astronomy universe. According NASA LUCY MISSION HOMEPAGE, the Lucy mission will be the first space mission to study asteroid Trojans, so this mission will help us understand the origin of planets.
LAGRANGE POINTS:
To talk about Asteroids Trojans, it is necessary to contextualize the environment where they are located. For that, let's start with Lagrange points, which are positions in space where objects tend to stand still. At these points the gravitational attraction of two large masses is exactly equal to the centripetal force needed for a small object to move with them and this makes aircraft able to save fuel. There are 5 Lagrange points, where three are unstable and two are stable. They are unstable: L1, L2 and L3 and stable, L4 and L5.
The figure below shows the Lagrange points:
Source: NASA/WMAP Science Team/Published: March 27, 2018
ABOUT ASTEROIDS:
Asteroids are pieces of rocky left behind over 4.6 billion years ago in the formation of the solar system and most part of the asteroids are orbiting the sun in a belt between Mars and Jupiter, according to NASA datas we searched.
ABOUT TROJAN ASTEROIDS:
On the NASA website, with the title of article “Lucy: The First Mission to the Trojan Asteroids” there is the following statement: “The Trojans orbit the Sun in two loose groups, with one group leading ahead of Jupiter in its path, the other trailing behind. Clustered around the two Lagrange points equidistant from the Sun and Jupiter, the Trojans are stabilized by the Sun and its largest planet in a gravitational balancing act. These primitive bodies hold vital clues to deciphering the history of the solar system”.
D-Types are characterized by low albedos and steep red spectral slopes.
P-Type also shares the same characteristics as the D-Type.
In our drawing we tried to illustrate the Lagrange points, emphasizing points L4 and L5, as well as the planet Earth, Jupiter, the sun and the Lucy Ship.
In addition, part of the Lucy ship was painted green because in Brazil this color represents hope, and this mission brings the hope of knowing where we came from. In the drawing we also illustrate 4 famous asteroids: 911 Agamemnon D-Type, 624 Hector D-Type, 588 Achilles D-Type, 617 Patroclus P-Type. Also we tried to highlight the Lagrange points L4 and L5.
WHICH COLOR IS THIS?
In our design we put the spacecraft Lucy because it is the star of that mission. In addition, we choose to paint it green because this color represents hope in Brazil and this missio give the possibility of knowing our origins. LUCY IS THE HOPE FOR OUR HISTORY.
SOURCE: 2070 SPACE TRAVEL TEAM, LUCY SPACECRAFT
911 Agamemnon, 624 Hector,
588 Achilles, 617 Patroclus.
In our drawing we have emphasized 4 famous asteroids called: 911 Agamemnon, 624 Hector,
588 Achilles, 617 Patroclus. They have a reddish layer because, according to data we collected from NASA, the type D and P asteroids have this characteristic. Also, the black part represents the albedo.
SOURCE: 2070 SPACE TRAVEL TEAM, ASTEROIDS TYPE-D AND TYPE-P
THE FINAL RESULT:
Space Agency Data
To understand what the Lucy mission was, the concept of asteroids and their types, and the Lacrange points, we used NASA's mission websites, solar system, image bank and the general website.
Hackathon Journey
It was quite a challenge because we were on exam week at school and college and we thought about giving up, but our Local Lead, Professor Danielle Brito said we should continue because we shouldn't let great opportunities go unnoticed by our daily tasks. Furthermore, we are grateful to each other because we managed to organize ourselves and make everything work. Furthermore, we thank those who created this challenge, because it is possible to understand science through art and they go hand in hand.
References
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/lucy/overview/index
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/lucy/images/index
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/lucy/images/index
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/754/what-is-a-lagrange-point/
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/how-were-the-trojan-asteroids-discovered-and-named
SPECTRAL VARTIATIONS OF D-TYPE ASTEROIDS AT DIFFERENT HELIOCENTRIC DISTANCES. G. M. Gartrelle1 , University of North Dakota (gmgartr@gmail.com) extrated from https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2017/pdf/1088.pdf
Tags
#art&space #artastronomer
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