The IAU (International Astronomical Union), a global naming authority for celestial objects, has approved official names for features on Donaldjohanson, an asteroid NASA’s Lucy spacecraft visited on April 20.
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Asteroids, Goddard Space Flight Center, Lucy, Missions, NASA Centers & Facilities, NASA Directorates, Planetary Science Division, Science Mission Directorate, The Solar System, Trojan Asteroids
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September 16, 2025
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