NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Images Asteroid Donaldjohanson - NASA Science
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In its second asteroid encounter, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft obtained a close look at a uniquely shaped fragment of an asteroid that formed about 150 million

The spacecraft has begun returning images that were collected as it flew approximately 600 miles (960 km) from the asteroid Donaldjohanson on April 20, 2025.

  • paulhammond5155@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    3 days ago

    It’s been bombarded by tiny super fast collisions.

    When we consider that it’s about 5 miles (8 km) long and 2 miles (3.5 km) wide, then some of those craters took good hits. I assume any future interstellar craft would need some sort of force field or be armor plated to protect from it from such collisions.