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Asteroid Donaldjohansson as captured by Lucy's L'LORRI camera. This is one of the most detailed images Lucy has taken during its flyby. It was taken on April 20.4.25, 1,100 from a distance of about XNUMX km. The image has been sharpened and processed to improve contrast. Credit: NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL/NOIRLab

Lucy spacecraft captures ice cream cone-shaped asteroid

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Asteroid encounter reveals 150-million-year-old fracture: The Lucy spacecraft took stunning images of the asteroid Donaldjohansson, revealing it to be a pair in contact, in the unusual shape of an "ice cream cone" with two spheres.
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