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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 deformed peanut.
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 ...
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NASA's Lucy probe captures 1st close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing 'strikingly complicated geology'
Images of the asteroid Lucy took as it approached the three-mile-wide (five-kilometer-wide) asteroid showed wide swings in brightness, suggesting it was either a slowly-rotating rock, appearing ...
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NASA's Lucy spacecraft beams back pictures of an asteroid shaped like a lumpy bowling pin
NASA's Lucy spacecraft has beamed back pictures from its latest asteroid flyby, revealing a long, lumpy, odd-shaped space rock.The space agency released the images Monday, a day after the close ...
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Dinosaurs could have lived with humans without the asteroid impact, study reveals – here’s what caused their decline before
A new study challenges the idea that dinosaurs were declining before the asteroid impact. Researchers at ... not an actual extinction event. Image source: National Geographic A new study indicates ...