Wonderful piece on asteroid Donaldjohanson, I was unaware that the Lucy spacecraft was finally getting that close, hopefully the rest of the images will be downloaded without any issue for us all to review soon.
An 8km long Asteroid, that’s fascinating, regarding organic matter, i have speculated for some time the first confirmation of mainline "extra-terrestrial" life will probably be in microbial form as found on, or specifically inside asteroids, we may find them from samples in the short term, but undoubtedly will absolutely find such microbial life when asteroid mining becomes "a thing"
At only 170 to 150 million years old, can’t wait to see what else we learn once the data has been analysed, please keep us updated!
Wonderful writing :)
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