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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 is speeding toward another close encounter with an asteroid
It will be the second asteroid encounter for Lucy, launched in 2021 on a quest that will take it to 11 space rocks.
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 ...
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Update: NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Send Back Video Of ‘Peculiar’ Asteroid
Called (52246) Donaldjohanson, it’s the second of 11 asteroids ... be about 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) in diameter. It orbits the sun in the solar system’s Main Asteroid Belt.
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 ...
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NASA's Lucy spacecraft gets up-close look of strange peanut-shaped asteroid: See images
The Trojan asteroids are intriguing to astronomers because they are believed to be composed of raw materials left over from the formation some 4 billion ... s main asteroid belt that Lucy plans ...