Nasa's Lucy spacecraft beams back pictures of an asteroid shaped like a lumpy bowling pin

Nasa's Lucy spacecraft successfully completed a flyby of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing its unexpectedly large and irregular bowling pin shape, measuring approximately 5 miles long. The mission, a rehearsal for future Trojan asteroid encounters near Jupiter, saw Lucy pass within 600 miles of the space rock. Further data analysis will refine understanding of the asteroid's dimensions.

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