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Asteroid experts are pondering the scientific output from the NASA Lucy spacecraft after it shot by its celestial destination ...
This Sunday, Lucy was expected to fly past her second target, the asteroid Donaldjohanson. Lucy would have past the asteroid at a distance of about 620 miles (1,000 kilometers), testing its ...
Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. NASA’s Lucy spacecraft had its second rendezvous with an asteroid over the weekend, this time with the uniquely named ...
Asteroid Donaldjohanson has turned out to be a picturesque waypoint as NASA’s mission heads toward Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids.
Luuucy, 'splain that if you can! The first images from the #LucyMission's asteroid Donaldjohanson flyby show an elongated contact binary shape, with an odd narrow neck between the two lobes.
Not to worry: Astronomers aren't interested in the small asteroid named Donaldjohanson for any danger it poses to Earth, unlike an infamous "city-killer" asteroid that briefly attracted attention ...
NASA's Lucy spacecraft flew about 600 miles above an asteroid named Donaldjohanson on Easter Sunday, sending back the first close-ups of this oblong, potato-like object believed to be about 150 ...
"On April 1, the spacecraft detected a pressure drop in the line that feeds the xenon gas to the thrusters, going from 36 pounds per square inch (psi) to about 26 psi," NASA said in the recent ...
The Donaldjohanson asteroid imaged by NASA's Lucy spacecraft. NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL NASA has shared the first closeup images of the Donaldjohanson ...
BOULDER, Colorado — Asteroid experts are pondering the scientific output from the NASA Lucy spacecraft after it shot by its celestial destination — the main belt asteroid named Donaldjohanson.