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Spacecraft Images of Asteroid Donaldjohanson (science.nasa.gov)
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The spacecraft has begun returning images that were collected as it flew approximately 600 miles (960 km) from the asteroid Donaldjohanson on April 20, 2025.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

It’s been bombarded by tiny super fast collisions.

When we consider that it's about 5 miles (8 km) long and 2 miles (3.5 km) wide, then some of those craters took good hits. I assume any future interstellar craft would need some sort of force field or be armor plated to protect from it from such collisions.