
NASA's Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Donaldjohanson on April 20, 2025, capturing images that show a peanut-shaped body with a cratered surface. Researchers determined the asteroid is a fragment from a collision 155 million years ago. Donaldjohanson belongs to the primitive, water-rich Erigone asteroid family.
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Webb Telescope Watches Planet Get Scorched