Meeting Details: December 15, 2023
December 15, 2023: Speaker: David Gerdes, Chair of UM Physics Department, “Shadow of a Fossil: Stellar Occultations and NASA’s Lucy Mission to Jupiter’s Trojan Asteroids” Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids, thousands of small icy worlds that orbit the sun 60 degrees behind or ahead of Jupiter, bear clues to our solar system’s formation history. NASA’s Lucy spacecraft,…