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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 main asteroid belt.

Smithsonian Magazine on MSN · 1d

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

SciTechDaily · 1d

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 unusual “ice cream cone” shape. This unexpected geological complexity offers insights into the early solar system.

GB News on MSN3h

Nasa shares first images of unexplored 'Trojan' asteroid which could revolutionise understanding of early Solar System

A Nasa spacecraft has captured its first detailed images of an unexplored asteroid, revealing a bizarrely shaped ...

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See what the asteroid that we thought might hit Earth looks like

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...

Forbes3d

Update: NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Send Back Video Of ‘Peculiar’ Asteroid

It orbits the sun in the solar system’s Main Asteroid Belt. The aim of Lucy’s flyby was to test the spacecraft and make sure its scientists are well prepared for the mission’s main target ...

CBS News5d

NASA's Lucy spacecraft to zoom past asteroid this weekend at 30,000 mph: "We don't know what to expect"

The close approaches should help scientists better understand our early solar system when planets were ... million miles from Earth in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, so far ...

katu5d

NASA's Lucy spacecraft is speeding toward another close encounter with an asteroid

The close approaches should help scientists better understand our early solar system when planets were ... from Earth in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, so far away it will ...

wnep5d

Lucy spacecraft gears up for potential asteroid close encounter this weekend

The encounter will take place 139 million miles (223 million kilometers) from Earth in the main asteroid belt between Mars ... precede and follow the solar system’s largest planet as it ...

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