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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 ...
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 probe captures 1st close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing 'strikingly complicated geology'
NASA's Lucy spacecraft, currently journeying toward Jupiter's orbit on its asteroid-hopping mission, captured an impressive ...
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 deformed peanut.
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 ...
South Florida Reporter21h
NASA’s Lucy Captures Stunning Views of Peanut-Shaped Asteroid in Latest Flyby (Animation)
Asteroid Donaldjohanson has turned out to be a picturesque waypoint as NASA’s mission heads toward Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids ...
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 ...
Wyoming Tribune Eagle5h
NASA's Lucy spacecraft sped toward another close encounter with an asteroid
NASA's Lucy spacecraft swooped past a small asteroid last weekend as it made its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of asteroids out ...
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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 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 ...
India Today on MSN20h
Lucy sends first pictures of 150 million-year-old asteroid Donaldjohanson
The team was surprised by the odd shape of the narrow neck connecting the two lobes, which looked like two nested ice cream ...
ScienceAlert23h
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 ...