NASA Flyby Reveals Violent Origin of Weird Peanut-Shaped Asteroid

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.