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NASA's Lucy spacecraft beams back pictures of an asteroid shaped like a lumpy bowling pin

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The space agency released the images Monday , a day after the close approach.

Lucy passed within 600 miles ( 960 kilometers ) of the harmless asteroid known as Donaldjohanson on Sunday .

Data returned over the next week should help clarify the asteroid’s shape, according to NASA .

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