Lucy Is Safely In An Elliptical Orbit, Speeding At 67,000 MPH -- Generally Toward The Sun -- With Solar Panels Deployed And Charging... Grin.

So from here on. . . it is now a seven year wait, until -- after a pair of Earth dips, in a highly-eliptical orbit (for gravity / sling-shot assists) -- the graceful craft reaches the L1 point out past Jupiter, to study. . . rocks.

But do not get caught sleep, dawg. For these are quite special rocks. . . they are from "[Maclean's] basement of time. . . ."

From as much as four to six billion years ago, perhaps -- the stuff from which all our local-system's planets were. . . ultimately congealed. They are. . . in a real sense, a pristine view of. . . our birth worlds.

And, at about five years from now, she will pass a "regular" asteriod, closer in -- called Donaldjohansen, largely for comparison purposes -- but the main mission's goals will wait for. . . seven long years, in relative silence. Seen are you, seven years on -- and eight -- and nine; five too -- near your birth home, twice at 9:36-38 AM. Smile. . . .

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