Donaldjohanson formed about 150 million years ago when a much larger asteroid broke apart. Since then, its orbit and spin ...

The asteroid holds special significance for the Lucy mission. It is named after anthropologist Donald Johanson, who discovered the fossilized skeleton called Lucy of a human ancestor in 1974.

the site where Lucy was discovered and Samara’s campus. The university honoured us and named its College of Social Science and Humanities building after Donald Johanson. When we got back ...

British rock band The Beatles put out a song titled ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’. The song’s letters, LSD, were said at ...

Lucy’s discovery on Nov. 24, 1974, by paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson, pushed things back nearly a million years, a major leap in scientific knowledge that still resonates a half-century later.

Say hello to Happy. It’s a freezing cold day in Cleveland — just the usual December-time eyeball freezing temperatures for these parts. But the sun is shining and inside the Cleveland Museum ...

Asteroid Donaldjohanson is named for anthropologist Donald Johanson, who discovered the fossilized skeleton, called “Lucy,” of a human ancestor. NASA’s Lucy mission is named for the fossil. NASA’s ...

NASA says this second asteroid encounter for Lucy "will serve as a dress-rehearsal for the spacecraft’s main targets, the never-before-explored Jupiter Trojan asteroids." NASA says the asteroid is ...

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Lucy’s grippy hands Despite Goodall’s findings, scientists for decades continued to hold an anthropocentric view of tool technology. This is why, when palaeoanthropologist Donald Johanson in 1974 ...