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Lucy Flyby Shows Peanut‑Shaped Asteroid Is Water‑Altered Fragment of Ancient Collision

New Science results reveal the object's bilobed shape, tumbling rotation, age and minerals while validating Lucy’s instruments ahead of its Trojan campaign.