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NASA's Lucy spacecraft has captured the first-ever view of asteroid Donaldjohanson. It was reported by NASA the spacecraft’s closest approach distance was 600 miles (960 km). Credit: Space.com | image ...
NASA's Lucy mission captured the highest resolution image yet of Donaldjohanson, the uniquely shaped asteroid.
Scientists with NASA’s Lucy mission are finally wrapping up the process of refining the data gathered by the spacecraft’s ...
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has encountered its second official asteroid, and once again, the object has defied expectations. The asteroid in question, Donaldjohanson, was visited by the mission on ...
On Easter Sunday (April 20), NASA's Lucy probe should have zipped past the asteroid Donaldjohanson, testing science instruments on the space rock.
NASA's Lucy spacecraft gets up-close look of strange peanut-shaped asteroid: See images Donaldjohanson is likely a fragment from a collision 150 million years ago, making it one of the youngest in ...
Lucy passed within 600 miles of the harmless asteroid known as Donaldjohanson on Sunday in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
Check out the first-ever close-up image of the Donaldjohanson asteroid, captured by NASA's Lucy spacecraft.
Donaldjohanson was actually wider than Lucy’s field of view, and it will take about a week for the remaining data to downlink to Earth.
During its second encounter with an asteroid, NASA's Lucy spacecraft captured a close-up view of asteroid Donaldjohanson on 20 April 2025. Measuring eight kilometres in length, the asteroid is larger ...
Unlike its first flyby, Lucy will stop tracking Donaldjohanson 40 seconds before its closest approach to protect its instruments from sunlight, NASA said.
NASA has released new detailed images revealing a full-frame view of the peculiarly shaped asteroid Donaldjohanson.