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NASA’s Lucy Captures Stunning Views of Peanut-Shaped Asteroid in Latest Flyby
Asteroid Donaldjohanson has turned out to be a picturesque waypoint as NASA’s mission heads toward Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids ...
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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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 ...
Update: NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Send Back Video Of ‘Peculiar’ Asteroid
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft successfully flew past asteroid Donaldjohanson, collecting data and images of the second of its 11 ...
NASA spacecraft zooms by strange asteroid, beams back images
On April 20, the over 50-foot-wide Lucy spacecraft approached as close as some 600 miles from Donaldjohanson, which is aptly ...
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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 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 ...
Here’s what a Beatles song and a fossil have to do with a NASA mission to study asteroids
Instead of looking for a girl with kaleidoscope eyes, a NASA spacecraft is about to approach space debris formed in the early ...
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NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Just Met Its Second Target, Asteroid Donaldjohanson – And It’s Defied Scientists' Expectations
N ASA’s Lucy spacecraft has encountered its second official asteroid, and once again, the object has defied expectations. The ...
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, revealing a long, lumpy, odd-shaped space ...
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NASA's Lucy spacecraft gets up-close look of strange peanut-shaped asteroid: See images
The spacecraft, which measures at nearly 52 feet wide with its solar arrays unfurled, is on a 12-year-mission to explore eight space rocks known as Trojan asteroids that share an orbit with ...