Donaldjohanson has a direct link to the Lucy spacecraft's name. Donald Johanson is a paleoanthropologist who discovered parts of a fossilized skeleton of an ancestor of homo sapiens', an ...

Asteroid Donaldjohanson is named for anthropologist Donald Johanson, who discovered the fossilized skeleton—called "Lucy"—of a human ancestor. NASA's Lucy mission is named for the fossil.

Discovered in 1974 by Donald Johanson, Lucy is special because she lived so long ago (3.2 millions years) and because almost half of her skeleton was found. (Most fossil finds are just fragments ...

Named after the famous fossilized human ancestor, Lucy, discovered by anthropologist Donald Johanson, the mission carries both a symbolic and scientific legacy. The spacecraft’s high-resolution ...