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Lucy Sees its Next Target: Asteroid Donaldjohanson

  • NASA's spacecraft Lucy captured an image of its next flyby target, the asteroid Donaldjohanson.
  • Lucy will pass within 960 km of the asteroid on April 20th and will continue to image it for the next two months.
  • The asteroid Donaldjohanson is a main-belt, carbonaceous C-type asteroid, about 4 km in diameter.
  • Lucy's flyby of Donaldjohanson will allow mission personnel to test and calibrate the spacecraft's navigation system and instruments.

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