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Lab Notes: Why did NASA spend a billion bucks on Lucy?

Lab Notes: Why did NASA spend a billion bucks on Lucy?

Update: 2025-04-22
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Somewhere out past Mars in the early hours of Easter Monday, a space probe called Lucy whizzed by an asteroid named Donaldjohanson.

Lucy then sent back images showing Donaldjohanson is about five kilometres wide and shaped like a peanut.

It's one of a handful of asteroids on Lucy's 12-year itinerary.

So what does the billion-dollar mission hope to achieve?

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Lab Notes: Why did NASA spend a billion bucks on Lucy?

Lab Notes: Why did NASA spend a billion bucks on Lucy?

Australian Broadcasting Corporation