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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 ...
NASA snaps detailed photos of ‘strikingly complicated’ asteroid
“As we study the complex structures in detail, they will reveal important information about the building blocks and ...
The Wild Plan to Terraform Mars by Slamming Asteroids Into It
If future Mars colonizers want to survive without pressure suits, they’ll need to generate a denser atmosphere. One way to ...
NASA's Lucy spacecraft to zoom past asteroid this weekend at 30,000 mph: "We don't know what to expect"
NASA's Lucy will venture as close as 596 miles to this asteroid, an estimated 2 ½ miles in length but much shorter in width.
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 ...
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NASA's Lucy spacecraft is speeding toward another close encounter with an asteroid
The close approaches should help scientists better understand our early solar system ... said the asteroid may resemble a bowling pin or even a snowman like Arrokoth, the Kuiper Belt object ...
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NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft to Make High-Speed Flyby of Asteroid Donaldjohanson at 30,000 MPH
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is set for a high-velocity encounter with the asteroid Donaldjohanson on Sunday, April 20, marking a ...
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NASA's Lucy spacecraft gets first images of 'strikingly complicated' asteroid that will shed light on early solar system
and thus have the potential to provide scientists with a window into the formation of our solar system. Donaldjohanson is a medium-sized asteroid in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter ...
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Lucy spacecraft gears up for potential asteroid close encounter this weekend
The encounter will take place 139 million miles (223 million kilometers) from Earth in the main asteroid belt between Mars ... precede and follow the solar system’s largest planet as it circles ...
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NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is speeding toward another close encounter with an asteroid
The encounter will take place 139 million miles from Earth in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter ... Swarms of Trojans precede and follow the solar system’s largest planet as ...