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NASA's Lucy spacecraft gets up-close look of strange peanut-shaped asteroid: See images
NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the ...
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Peanut-shaped surprise for Lucy in asteroid flyby
Asteroid Donaldjohanson was the second destination on the NASA mission’s itinerary — and its size and shape were not what ...
NASA’s Lucy Captures Ice Cream Cone–Shaped Asteroid That Defies Expectations
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has captured striking images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing it to be a contact binary with an ...
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NASA’s Lucy Mission Provides Humanity’s First Picture of Peanut-Shaped Giant Asteroid – (LOOK)
The asteroid has been compared to a lumpy bowling pin by space-watchers, with NASA describing it as looking like two ice ...
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NASA's Lucy spacecraft gets first images of 'strikingly complicated' asteroid that will shed light on early solar system
NASA has released the Lucy spacecraft's first close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing a peanut-shaped rock that could shed light on how planets formed in our solar system.
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft beams back pictures of an asteroid shaped like a lumpy bowling pin
NASA's Lucy spacecraft has beamed back pictures from its latest asteroid flyby. NASA released the images on Monday, a day ...
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NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Just Flew by a Strange, Peanut-Shaped Asteroid. See the New Images From the Approach
The close-up views of asteroid Donaldjohanson are a preview of what’s to come for Lucy on its 12-year quest to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids ...
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NASA's Lucy spacecraft gets first images of 'strikingly complicated' asteroid that will shed light on early solar system
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Lucy spacecraft's long-range reconnaissance imager captured asteroid Donaldjohanson in ...
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Asteroid Donaldjohanson: Lucy probe's surprising discovery
The Lucy probe captured an image of the asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson. NASA released photos of this object, which is ...
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NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Just Flew by a Strange, Peanut-Shaped Asteroid. See the New Images From the Approach
The asteroid Donaldjohanson—named after the paleoanthropologist who discovered the famous Lucy fossil in 1974—is shaped like a long peanut. The spacecraft zoomed by the asteroid at 30,000 ...
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NASA's Lucy spacecraft gets up-close look of strange peanut-shaped asteroid: See images
Not to worry: Astronomers aren't interested in the small asteroid named Donaldjohanson for any danger it poses to Earth, unlike an infamous "city-killer" asteroid that briefly attracted attention ...