NASA's Lucy spacecraft snaps first close-ups of weird peanut-shaped asteroid
When you purchase through links on our site , we may earn an affiliate perpetration . Here ’s how it works . NASA ’s Lucy spacecraft has captured its first high - resolution images of an asteroid , reveal a bizarrely shaped 150 - million - year - old blank space rock . The asteroid Donaldjohanson take form when two pocket-sized objects smashed into each other . Donaldjohanson is narrow in the middle with two lobes on either side , like a misshapen goober with one kernel big than the other ....