NASA has released the Lucy spacecraft's first close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing a peanut-shaped rock that could shed light on how planets formed in our solar system.

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The nearly 200 foot (60-meter) asteroid looks more like a flat disk — or not-quite-round hockey puck — than a potato. It also has a rapid rotation rate of about once every 20 minutes.

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While many asteroids rotate slowly, 2024 YR4 completes a full turn every 20 minutes. This rapid spin could influence how the asteroid behaves during close encounters with other space objects.

The team also determined that the asteroid is rotating very fast, about once every 20 minutes, and estimated its size to be 98 to 213 feet (30 to 65 meters) wide, according to the study.

The analysis also reveals that the asteroid has a fast rotation period, approximately one rotation every 20 minutes, as well as "a peculiar hockey puck-like shape." This finding "was quite ...

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The study, set to be published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, revealed that the nearly 60m space rock was hockey puck-shaped and rapidly rotated every ... of asteroid 2024 YR4 as it flies ...

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Space scientists have worked out the shape of the asteroid set to smash into the Moon. Astronomers said the house-sized asteroid 2024 YR4 is shaped like a hockey puck and also deduced its origin.

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