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NASA's Lucy probe flies by the asteroid Donaldjohanson on Easter Sunday
The first was a flyby of the asteroid Dinkinesh on Nov. 1, 2023. This coming Sunday, Lucy will zip past her second target, ...
Here’s what a Beatles song and a fossil have to do with a NASA mission to study asteroids
Instead of looking for a girl with kaleidoscope eyes, a NASA spacecraft is about to approach space debris formed in the early ...
NASA probe set to uncover secrets of mysterious asteroid: 'We don't know what to expect'
NASA’s space-faring probe Lucy is set have a close encounter with an oddly shaped asteroid more than 100 million miles from ...
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Nasa's Lucy flies close to asteroid Donaldjohanson before heading to Trojans
After passing the asteroid, the spacecraft reoriented its solar arrays toward the Sun and reestablished communication with ...
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NASA's Lucy spacecraft makes asteroid encounter
LOS ANGELES, April 20 (Xinhua) -- NASA announced that its Lucy spacecraft made a close encounter with a small main belt asteroid on Sunday. The spacecraft made the closest approach to the asteroid, ...
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NASA's Lucy spacecraft is speeding toward another close encounter with an asteroid
Lucy’s next stop — “the main event,” as Levison calls it — will be the Trojan asteroids that share Jupiter’s orbit around the sun. Swarms of Trojans precede and follow the solar system’s largest ...