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This segment discusses the first detailed images of asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson, captured by NASA's Lucy spacecraft during its flyby on Easter Sunday. The asteroid, discovered in 1981 and previously just a point of light, was imaged from a distance of 600 km. The images reveal an elongated, 4 km object with a narrow waist, suggesting it's a contact binary formed from two smaller bodies that slowly merged. Small impact craters are visible on its surface. The asteroid is identified as being less than 150 million years old, belonging to the Erigone ("origami" in transcript) family, which originated from a larger parent body breakup. It was named Donaldjohanson in 2015, honoring the paleontologist, after mission planners identified it as a target for the Lucy mission en route to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids.

Lucy Spacecraft's Flyby of Asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson

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