On Easter Sunday, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft had a scheduled flyby of asteroid Donaldjohanson, part of a test ahead of its main mission to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids.

Launched in 2021, Lucy is on a 12-year mission to uncover clues about the early solar system and the origins of life.

This flyby, just 620 miles from the asteroid, allowed scientists to rehearse using Lucy’s instruments.

The spacecraft and asteroid share a symbolic connection: Lucy is named after the famous fossil discovered by Donald Johanson, for whom the asteroid is named, Space.com has reported.

Scientists also speculated the flyby might reveal a secondary asteroid.

Written by B.C. Begley