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Asteroid Donaldjohanson Is Wobbly, Peanut-Shaped, With Watery Past

Asteroid Donaldjohanson Is Wobbly, Peanut-Shaped, With Watery Past

New analysis of NASA’s Lucy spacecraft data shows main-belt asteroid Donaldjohanson is a wobbling, peanut-shaped, heavily cratered fragment from a breakup about 155 million years ago. The object preserves clues about the migration of water-rich bodies in the early Solar System.

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Asteroid Donaldjohanson is Wobbly, Peanut-Shaped Object with Watery Past, Scientists Say