This is a photo taken by the Lucy spacecraft from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on the 20th (local time) of the asteroid "Donaldjohanson" from a distance of about 1,100 km. Launched in 2021, Lucy is set to travel to the orbit of Jupiter over 12 years and explore a total of eight Trojan asteroid groups. The asteroid encountered this time, Donaldjohanson, is approximately 8 km long and 3.5 km wide. It was named to honor paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson, who discovered the ancient fossil "Lucy" 3.2 million years ago. This asteroid is believed to have formed into its current shape about 150 million years ago when two small celestial bodies collided.
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