NASA’s Lucy Captures Stunning Views of Peanut-Shaped Asteroid in Latest Flyby

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft removed only the second asteroid Flyby and an open tasty-looking rock: a peanut-shaped asteroid called Donaldjohanson.

Oblong Asteroid is a part of a long-destroyed space rock, which occurred about 150 million years ago, and 600 miles (960 kilometers), in April 20, 2025, seize some serious wild relatives.

“Donaldjanson’s early images still show the great capabilities of Lucy Space Ship as an engine of the discovery,” said Tom Statler, NASA program, an agency, an agency release. “When Lucy reaches Trojan asteroids, the potential to open a really new window in the history of our solar system.”

Donaldjohanson – In 1974, in 1974, he called an anthropologist who discovered a space ship. But this is greater than previous assessments; A few months ago, when Lucy is farther, the researchers estimated that Donaldjohanson was about 3 miles (4 km).

You can see the below 45 million miles (70 million kilometers) from the space ship. It is enough to say, new images give us a better view of ancient rock.

Lucy has a warning of the main belt asteroid Back in FebruaryAs the spacecraft prepares to explore Trojan Asteroids as Jupiter. Donaldjohanson is not asteroid in Trojan, but it was easily placed on the swing, according to the main destination of NASA’s Lucy Space ship.

Flyby NASA researchers have the opportunity to test Lucy’s colorful image, infrared spectrometer and thermal infrared spectrometer, as well as L’Lorri image that broke the images above. On August 2027, when Lucy came to Trojan Asteroid Eurybat, these devices will be put to office. Lucy is still very early in his mission, but the sun system occupies the images of our ancient past.

Donaldjohanson will fly by the last asteroid Lucy, but not the first. The mission flew by a small asteroid Zinkinesh In November 2023 – ISY-BITSY Asteroid, only 0.5 miles (790 meters). The first time a spacecraft observes a connection to the first time noted. We have every reason to hope that in a solar system filled with poorly understood items and the trojan asteroids in the horizon, Lucy will be more in the future.