Esteroid Donaldohanson NASA was the second destination on the NASA mission’s journey – and its size and size were not expected of scientists.
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captured Esteroid 52246 Donaldzohanson in a video on 20 April. Using Lucy Long Range Charan Imazor (L’ORRII), it mimicked the asteroids every two seconds in a time-omission from 1,000 to 660 miles (1,600 to 1,100 to 1,100 to 1,100 miles.
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft visited the asteroid 52246 Donaldzohanson on Sunday, 20 April, coming within 600 miles (920 km) of the commodity located in the internal area of the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
The asteroid was named after the Pelionantologist Donald Johansson, who discovered the first identified example of the first unknown type of homeinid in 1974. He named the sample “Lucy”, which is named after the mission. Like their names, the mission and this asteroid can help us understand more about our origin.
A day after the encounter, NASA released images of Donaldzohanson, a Lucy Long range reconnaissance image (L’Oiri), a high-resolution camera of the craft. He revealed that the asteroid is 5 miles (8 km) longer – larger than the scientists – and 2 miles (3.5 km) at their wide point.
The images also revealed Donaldzohanson’s interesting peanut size, with two lobes connected to a narrow neck. Its presence resembles a long contact binary, which occurs when an asteroid is formed by two objects that come together. According to a NASA report, it could be more complicated than that, as scientists were surprised by the size of the neck, which resumes two nested ice cream cones. “Esteroid Donaldzohanson performed the striking complex geology,” said Hal Levisson, the chief investigator of Lucy at the Southwest Research Institute in the release.
The information of other equipment of Lucy will be downloaded from the craft and processed within the next few weeks. It will include color images and infrared spectras that can obtain clues for the surface structure, particle size and level of radiation of Donaldohanson.
The Lucy Mission will spend the next two years traveling through asteroid belt, reaching its next goal at August 12, 2027: asteroid 3548 euribates and its satellites, Quetta. The rest of the future targets of Eurybates and Lucy are Trojan Asteroids, a family of asteroids, which is associated with Jupiter with gravity. During this leg of the mission, Lucy will withstand a total of five trozons and three satellite objects. It will end its mission on March 3, 2033 after flying by asteroid 617 Petrochlus and its satellite Menoityus.
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