New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit ...
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is gearing up for an exciting flyby of the asteroid Donaldjohanson on April 20, 2025. The mission, ...
New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about ...
Although NASA's Lucy spacecraft's upcoming encounter with the asteroid Donaldjohanson is primarily a mission rehearsal for ...
One exciting project currently happening is NASA’s Lucy mission, which is on a quest to learn more about asteroids orbiting ...
New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed ...
This artist’s concept compares the approximate size of Lucy’s next asteroid target, Donaldjohanson, to the smallest main belt asteroids previously visited by spacecraft — Dinkinesh, visited by Lucy in ...
More recently, uber-rich space tourists earned the distinction by breaching Earth's atmosphere ... sequence before it visits seven Trojan asteroids. The asteroid, called DJ for short, is only ...
Unlike a trojan, which can safely orbit along with ... on the other hand. Any time an asteroid hits Earth (any object that, whether comet or asteroid, enters our atmosphere, officially becomes ...
The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of researchers ...