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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 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 ...
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NASA spacecraft zooms by strange asteroid, beams back images
On the way there, it snapped images of the curious, elongated asteroid dubbed "Donaldjohanson." On April 20, the over 50-foot-wide Lucy spacecraft approached as close as some 600 miles from ...
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NASA's Lucy probe captures 1st close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing 'strikingly complicated geology'
"These early images of Donaldjohanson are again showing the tremendous capabilities of the Lucy spacecraft as an engine of discovery." NASA's Lucy spacecraft, currently headed toward Jupiter on an ...
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NASA's Lucy spacecraft gets up-close look of strange peanut-shaped asteroid: See images
The solar-powered probe conducted a flyby on April 20 of the asteroid and has begun transmitting images back to Earth, which NASA released Monday. Astronomers believe Donaldjohanson is a fragment ...
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NASA's Lucy probe captures 1st close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing 'strikingly complicated geology'
Credit: The asteroid Donaldjohanson as seen by the Lucy Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (L’LORRI). This is one of the most detailed images returned by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft during its flyby.
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NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Just Flew by a Strange, Peanut-Shaped Asteroid. See the New Images From the Approach
The spacecraft zoomed by the asteroid at 30,000 miles per hour on Sunday, snapping images with its high-resolution Lucy Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (L’LORRI) from 600 miles away.