NASA’s Lucy mission is exploring Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids, revealing clues to how our Solar System formed 4.5 billion years ago using #Teledyne detectors 🌌

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Asteroid Donaldjohanson’s Features Named After Human Evolution Sites

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson on 20 April, and the IAU named its lobes Afar and Olduvai after key human‑evolution sites. Read more: getnews.me/asteroid-donaldjohansons... #lucymission #asteroid

Lucy a survolé l’astéroïde Donaldjohanson, deux lobes reliés par un cou étroit façon cornets de glace : fascinant et inattendu.
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Lucy a survolé l’astéroïde Donaldjohanson, deux lobes reliés par un cou étroit façon cornets de glace : fascinant et inattendu.
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NASA’s Lucy Mission Provides Full View of Asteroid Donaldjohanson - NASA Science Scientists with NASA’s Lucy mission continue to analyze data collected during the spacecraft’s April 20 encounter with the main-belt asteroid Donaldjohanson.

The #LucyMission posted yesterday the highest resolution photo they got of the whole #AsteroidDonaldjohanson (there are higher res partial closer photos)

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They have some other goodies in their gallery
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NASA’s Lucy Mission Provides Full View of Asteroid Donaldjohanson

NASA's Lucy mission successfully captured images of asteroid Donaldjohanson during its April 20 encounter.

This boosts confidence for future encounters with Jupiter Trojan asteroids, starting in August 2027.

#NASA #LucyMission #Asteroids

NASA’s Lucy Mission Provides Humanity’s First Picture of Peanut-Shaped Giant Asteroid – (LOOK) Asteroids are hugely significant features of our solar system, and a NASA space probe just sent back a photo of one as it passed close-by, revealing its odd, peanut-like shape. NASA’s Lucy space probe is on a 12-year journey to study Jupiter’s Trojan and main-belt asteroids, aiming to uncover insights into the early solar system’s […] The post NASA’s Lucy Mission Provides Humanity’s First Picture of Peanut-Shaped Giant Asteroid – (LOOK) appeared first on Good News Network.

NASA’s Lucy Mission Provides Humanity’s First Picture of Peanut-Shaped Giant Asteroid – (LOOK): Asteroids are hugely significant features of our solar system, and a NASA space probe just sent back a photo of one as it… @goodnewsnetwork.org #NASA #LucyMission #Asteroid #SpaceExploration #Jupiter

Amazing images from the surface of asteroid Donaldjohanson, congratulations to the NASA's #LucyMission for this incredible achievement! 👏

My new entry describing some preliminary results of @nasawatch.bsky.social #LucyMission.
A content easy to automatically translate to your preferred language:

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The asteroid Donaldjohanson as seen by the Lucy Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (L’LORRI) on NASA’s Lucy spacecraft during its flyby. This timelapse shows images captured approximately every 2 seconds beginning at 1:50 p.m. EDT (17:50 UTC), April 20, 2025. The asteroid rotates very slowly; its apparent rotation here is due to the spacecraft’s motion as it flies by Donaldjohanson at a distance of 1,000 to 660 miles (1,600 to 1,100 km). The spacecraft’s closest approach distance was 600 miles (960 km), but the images shown were taken approximately 40 seconds beforehand, the nearest ones at a distance of 660 miles (1100 km). NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL

NASA's Lucy spacecraft captured its first close-up image of asteroid Donaldjohanson, a 650m-wide rock in the main belt, helping test Lucy’s instruments before its Trojan asteroid mission.

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La sonda Lucy revela el tamaño y la intrigante forma del asteroide Donaldjohanson La sonda espacial Lucy, en su misión de estudio de asteroides, ha revelado la intrigante forma bilobular del asteroide Donaldjohanson.

"La sonda Lucy revela el tamaño y la intrigante forma del asteroide Donaldjohanson". Un nuevo artículo divulgativo en @Conversation_E. Explico como la sonda #LucyMission de #NASA ha desvelado el tamaño y estructura de este lejano asteroide, apuntando como se formó
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NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Images Asteroid Donaldjohanson In its second asteroid encounter, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft obtained a close look at a uniquely shaped fragment of an asteroid that formed about 150 million years ago. The spacecraft has begun returning images that were collected as it flew approximately 600 miles (960 km) from the asteroid Donaldjohanson on April 20, 2025. The asteroid was […] The post NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Images Asteroid Donaldjohanson appeared first on NASA Science.

NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Images Asteroid Donaldjohanson

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Lucy probe snaps closeup of weirdly shaped asteroid NASA’s Lucy spacecraft made a successful flyby of the second asteroid on its must-see list over the weekend, and sent back imagery documenting the elongated object’s bizarre double-lobe…

A double scoop? Imagery from NASA's #LucyMission reveals that an asteroid called Donaldjohanson is a mooshed-together double space rock, with a ridged structure in the middle that has been compared to a pair of nested ice cream cones. cosmiclog.com/2025/04/21/l...

Our #LucyMission took a look at asteroid Donaldjohanson, its second asteroid encounter on its journey to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids. The first images reveal a unique fragment of an asteroid that formed about 150 million years ago! Find out more: https://go.nasa.gov/4cHZSPL

Oliver O'Brien (upper left) with their ASTR 498 research group and instructor Melissa Hayes-Gehrke. Image courtesy of Elizabeth Warner.

Astronomy and anthropology dual-degree junior Oliver O'Brien analyzed two eclipsing asteroids in Jupiter’s Trojan asteroid belt as part of an astrophysics assignment.

Their analysis could influence the flight plan of NASA's #LucyMission. Read more about the project: go.umd.edu/oobrien

It would seem that the #LucyMission team named this asteroid #Donaldjohanson for a good reason - it certainly looks like Lucy's femur. Just sayin' #NASA #AustralopithecusAfarensis #fossil #SwRI

where do i found out what's up with #lucymission and it's flyby of asteroid #donaldjohanson ??

📣 Jour de survol d'astéroïde
🛰️ #LucyMission
☄️ Astéroïde Donaldjohanson
⏰ Survol au plus près (~1000 km) à 17h51 UTC ce dimanche 20 avril
📷 Images empilées de l'astéroïde prises par l'instrument de navigation L’LORRI du 20 février au 5 avril 2025 (NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL)

NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Prepares Second Asteroid Encounter - NASA NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is 6 days and less than 50 million miles (80 million km) away from its second close encounter with an asteroid; this time, the small

One more sleep. Eeep! #lucymission #asteroid #letsscience

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The Deep Space Network is tracking the #LucyMission spacecraft as it flies by the main-belt asteroid Donaldjohnson: eyes.nasa.gov/apps/dsn-now... .

I await the pictures.

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Twaalf jaar, elf asteroïden, één ruimtevaartuig.

20 april 2025
(52246) #Donaldjohanson ontmoeting.

Deze asteroïde in de hoofdgordel dient als een generale repetitie voor Lucy's toekomstige ontmoetingen met Trojaanse asteroïden.

Showtime! 📺

On April 20, our #LucyMission will fly by the small main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson. Johanson is the paleoanthropologist who discovered the ""Lucy"" fossil for which the spacecraft is named.

Follow @NASASolarSystem for live updates. https://go.nasa.gov/4jfM01s

NASA’s Lucy Gears Up for a Thrilling Close Encounter With a Mysterious Space Relic NASA’s Lucy mission is about to fly past asteroid Donaldjohanson, a strange, elongated rock in the main belt. While this three-mile-wide object isn’t one of Lucy’s primary targets, the April 20...

NASA’s Lucy Gears Up for a Thrilling Close Encounter With a Mysterious Space Relic #Science #Space #SpaceExploration #NASA #LucyMission

6.6K views · 123 reactions | Connecting the past to present 🪨🦴 “Lucy helped us understand how humans got to be human. What knowledge can be gained from the Trojan asteroids to... | By NASA Solar Syst... Connecting the past to present 🪨🦴 “Lucy helped us understand how humans got to be human. What knowledge can be gained from the Trojan asteroids to...

The #LucyMission flyby of asteroid Donaldjohanson this Sunday, April 20, will be the first time NASA sends a spacecraft to a planetary body named after a living person. The discoverer of the Lucy fossil hominid turns out to be a charmer. www.facebook.com/NASASolarSys...

The Lucy Mission Our guest today is Dr. Simone Marchi, Institute Scientist in the Solar System Science & Exploration Division at the Boulder office of Southwest Research Institute. Dr. Marchi is the Deputy Prin…

Today on How on Earth #KGNU, we talk with Dr. Simone Marchi about #NASA's #LucyMission to the Trojan asteroids. On its way, Lucy has flybys of two main-belt asteroids: Dinkinesh in November 2023 and next on April 20 it will fly by asteroid Donaldjohanson. howonearthradio.org/archives/10036

NASA's #LucyMission is preparing for its next asteroid encounter. The spacecraft will fly by the small main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson this Sunday, April 20.

Lucy's next stop will be the Jupiter Trojan asteroids.

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🛰️☄️ Le 20 avril, #LucyMission va survoler l'astéroïde Donaldjohanson à ~ 960 km de sa surface.
Entre février et mars, la sonde a parcouru près de 50 millions de km.
📷 Vidéo accélérée de 39 jours d'approche par l'imageur L'LORRI (crédit NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL)

A pre-flyby view on the origin of asteroid Donaldjohanson, a target of the NASA Lucy mission The NASA Lucy mission is scheduled to fly-by the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson on April 20, 2025. Donaldjohanson (DJ hereafter) is a member of the primitive (C-type class) Erigone collisio...

Today on the #arXiv :

Marchi et al. 2025, "A pre-flyby view on the origin of asteroid Donaldjohanson, a target of the NASA Lucy mission" - arxiv.org/abs/2503.14148

With predictions in advance of the #LucyMission flyby one month from now.

Lucy Sees its Next Target: Asteroid Donaldjohanson NASA’s asteroid-studying spacecraft Lucy captured an image of its next flyby target, the asteroid Donaldjohanson. On April 20th, the spacecraft will pass within 960 km of the small, main belt asteroid....

Lucy Sees its Next Target: Asteroid Donaldjohanson #Science #Space #PlanetaryScience #AsteroidExploration #NASA #LucyMission

NASA Selects Participating Scientists to Join Lucy Asteroid Mission 2 min read NASA Selects Participating Scientists to Join Lucy Asteroid Mission NASA has selected eight participating scientists to join its Lucy mission to the Jupiter Trojan asteroids. These asteroids...

NASA Selects Participating Scientists to Join Lucy Asteroid Mission #Science #Space #SpaceExploration #NASA #Asteroids #LucyMission