Although NASA’s Lucy spacecraft’s upcoming encounter with the asteroid Donaldjohanson is primarily a mission rehearsal for later asteroid encounters, a new paper suggests that this small, main belt asteroid may have some surprises of its own. New modeling indicates that Donaldjohanson may have been formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid […]
Category:
Goddard Space Flight Center, Lucy, Missions, Planetary Science, Planetary Science Division
Posted on
March 17, 2025
Sign up for our newsletter:
Categories
2
6
1
4
17
46
3
1
1
1
10
152
386
3
299
107
48
69
1
3
105
1
7
2
1
17
7
10
6
10
3
34
45
41
136
2
46
1
18
3
2
1
1
12
202
1
5
10
10
1
1
1
11
3
1
6
1
1
46
10
1
101
21
1
1
3
2
3
2
11
10
2
13
1
21
407
11
1
30
170
17
13
114
112
6
1
362
661
2
54
1
38
13
29
14
1
6
35
3
1
67
36
1
187
4
1
4
14
2
18
1
3
27
2
4
17
5
1
29
281
133
14
62
388
10
55
1
1
159
33
5
210
15
1
13
2
2
58
371
3
22
6
18
14
1
11
54
3
8
2
1
11
1
1
113
41
19
9
1
233
13
141
1
1
4
95
1
4
3
26
14
1
37
6
19
2
1
20
3
222
46
8
18
2
1
3
7
3
6
30
Blog Posts
APOD: 2026 September 27 – Andromeda Before and After Photoshop
September 27, 2026
APOD: 2026 September 26 – Mirrored Meteor and Milky Way
September 26, 2026
NASA, Boeing to Provide Update on Starliner Development
September 26, 2026