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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 ...
NASA's Lucy prepares for second asteroid flyby on the road to Jupiter
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is closing in on its second close encounter with an asteroid, expected to happen on April 20, 2025.
NASA's Lucy spacecraft to zoom past asteroid this weekend at 30,000 mph: "We don't know what to expect"
NASA's Lucy will venture as close as 596 miles to this asteroid, an estimated 2 ½ miles in length but much shorter in width.
NASA's Lucy spacecraft captures images of peanut-shaped asteroid during 30,000 mph flyby
This asteroid is bigger than scientists anticipated, about 5 miles long and 2 miles wide at its widest point — resembling a ...
NASA's Lucy captures bizarre ‘ice cream cone’ asteroid during flyby
The asteroid was spotted during Lucy’s latest close encounter. The spacecraft flew just 960 kilometres above its surface on ...
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NASA Reveals Stunning Closeup of Bizarre-Looking Asteroid
NASA's Lucy spacecraft made a successful flyby of the second asteroid on its must-see list over the weekend, and sent back ...
NASA's Lucy Probe Reveals True Shape And Size Of Ancient Asteroid In First Images
The first images of asteroid Donaldjohanson after Lucy spacecraft 's April 20 flyby have arrived. NASA shared the pictures on ...
The Wild Plan to Terraform Mars by Slamming Asteroids Into It
If future Mars colonizers want to survive without pressure suits, they’ll need to generate a denser atmosphere. One way to ...
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NASA's Lucy spacecraft gets up-close look of strange peanut-shaped asteroid: See images
Astronomers believe Donaldjohanson is a fragment from a collision 150 million years ago, making it one of the youngest in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter ever ...