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 […]
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Goddard Space Flight Center, Lucy, Missions, Planetary Science, Planetary Science Division
Posted on
March 17, 2025
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