Eurybates
Americannoun
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The spacecraft’s targets include Eurybates, a 64-kilometre-wide remnant of a massive cosmic collision, and its tiny moon Queta, discovered last year with the Hubble Space Telescope.
From Scientific American • Oct. 19, 2021
After launch, Lucy will make several loops past Earth to gain the gravitational boost needed to head towards its first target, Eurybates, which it won’t reach until 2027.
From Scientific American • Oct. 19, 2021
Two years later, the spacecraft will fly by the first Trojan asteroid, 3548 Eurybates, which also has a tiny moon, Queta.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 16, 2021
Eurybates has a tiny moonlet called Queta, which scientists think was created during a past collision.
From The Verge • Oct. 15, 2021
"He was accompanied by a herald named Eurybates, a hunchback with a dark complexion, but Odysseus seemed to value him above all the rest, for he was a clever and a faithful man."
From Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca Adapted from the Third Book of the Primary Schools of Athens, Greece by Ragozin, Zénaïde A. (Zénaïde Alexeïevna)
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