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NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has just dragged its second asteroid flybike and portrayed an open -eyed look: a peanut -shaped asteroid called Donaldzohananson.
The Oblong asteroid is a section of a long-destructive space rock that was formed about one and a half million years ago, and Lucy jumped between 600 miles (960 km) on April 2025, which some seriously captured wild close-ups.
“These initial images of Donaldzohanson are showing the extraordinary ability of the Lucy spacecraft as an engine of invention again,” Lucy Mission’s NASA program scientist Tom Statler said at an agency ReleaseThe “When Lucy reaches the Trojan asteroids, the possibility of opening a new window in our solar system history is immense.”
Donaldzohanson – Anthropologist who discovered fossilized hominid lucy in 1974, was named after the spacecraft – relatively small, covers about 5 miles (8 km). But it is larger than the previous assumption; Just a few months ago, when Lucy was farther, the researchers assumed that Donaldzohanson was about 3 miles (4 km).
Below you can see the asteroid because it appeared 45 million miles (70 million kilometers) from the spacecraft. Needless to say, new images give us better scenes about ancient rock.
Lucy got a hidden liner of the main belt asteroid Back to FebruaryThe spacecraft, such as Jupiter, is ready to explore Trojan asteroids. Donaldzohanson is not a Trojan asteroid, but it was convenient for the NASA Lucy spacecraft whose main destination has to move on a natural coast.
Flybie NASA researchers have given the lorry image image, infrared spectrometer and thermal infrared spectrometer, as well as the lorry image testing to top the images. These devices will work if Lucy appears in Trojan asteroids Yuribet in August 2027. Lucy is still very early on his mission, but it is already catching the ancient past of our solar system.
Donaldzohanson is not the last asteroid, but Lucy will fly, but this is not the first. The mission has flown by small asteroids Dink In November 2023-it is an ET-Bitts asteroid covers only 0.5 miles (790 meters). This is the first time an spacecraft observed a communication binary. With a solar system filled with badly burdened objects, with the Trojan asteroids on the horizon, we have all the reasons to expect that Lucy will be much more in his future.