Donaldjohnson Comparison (IMAGE)

Southwest Research Institute

Donaldjohnson Comparison

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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 November 2023, and Steins — as well as two recently explored near-Earth asteroids, Bennu and Ryugu. Lucy, an SwRI-led NASA mission, plans to visit 11 asteroids in 12 years, culminating in the first encounters with Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids.

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SwRI/ESA/OSIRIS/NASA/Goddard/Johns Hopkins APL/NOIRLab/University of Arizona/JAXA/University of Tokyo & Collaborators

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