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Smithsonian Magazine on MSN · 1h

NASA's Lucy Spacecraft Just Flew by a Strange, Peanut-Shaped Asteroid. See the New Images From the Approach

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has sent back photos of a distant space rock from its second asteroid flyby—and it looks pretty weird. The asteroid Donaldjohanson—named after the paleoanthropologist who discovered the famous Lucy fossil in 1974—is shaped like a long peanut.

USA TODAY on MSN · 18h

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 main asteroid belt.

CBS News · 18h

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 deformed peanut.

Space.com on MSN2d

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 Sunday, Lucy was expected to fly past her second target ...

Daily Wrap on MSN4h

NASA's Lucy probe unveils 'cosmic bowling pin' asteroid

The Lucy probe has captured an image of the asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson. NASA has released photos of this object, which is ...

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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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