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‘Odd-shaped’ asteroid with ‘strikingly complicated’ structure leaves NASA scientists surprised
Hal Levison, principal investigator for Lucy at Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, said: “Asteroid ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Just Met Its Second Target, Asteroid Donaldjohanson – And It’s Defied Scientists' Expectations
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 April ...
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Earthquakes Asteroids Zombies: Predictions of Nostradamus
He predicted that 2020 would be a "great trouble for humanity". Well, that was true. And he says a greater trouble is coming in the form of a global famine. According to Nostradamus, the famine will ...
NASA’s Lucy Captures Stunning Views of Peanut-Shaped Asteroid in Latest Flyby
Asteroid Donaldjohanson has turned out to be a picturesque waypoint as NASA’s mission heads toward Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids ...
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See it: NASA's Lucy spacecraft sends back first close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson
This 150-million-year old space rock may look like a badly-shaped potato but studying it could help scientists understand how ...
NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Set for High-Stakes Asteroid Encounter on Sunday
The Lucy mission is on a 12-year journey to explore a peculiar set of asteroids that lead and follow Jupiter as it orbits the Sun. As it journeys to these Trojan asteroids, the probe is preparing for ...