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NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is about to have its second close encounter with an asteroid
The Lucy spacecraft will observe the asteroid Donaldjohanson on Sunday afternoon, before it moves on to study a handful of ...
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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 probe will fly by the asteroid Donaldjohanson on Easter Sunday
The first was a flyby of the asteroid Dinkinesh on Nov. 1, 2023. This coming Sunday, Lucy will zip past her second target, ...
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What Happened To The Planet That Earth "Ate"?
Originally, the hypothesis was that Theia gave the Earth a glancing blow, and the proto-Earth and Theia lost pieces ending up as one or two moons that eventually formed the Moon. It was thought that a ...
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is speeding toward another close encounter with an asteroid
Lucy’s next stop — “the main event,” as Levison calls it — will be the Trojan asteroids that share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...