US EditionNew Vera Rubin Observatory Discovers 2,000 Unknown Asteroids Within 10 Hours
- The Vera C. Rubin Observatory discovered 2,104 previously unknown asteroids in a 10-hour observation over seven nights in Chile.
- This discovery follows the observatory’s advanced capability to scan the visible sky every few nights and precedes its full operation later this year.
- Among the newly discovered asteroids, seven are near-Earth objects that do not threaten our planet, along with a group of eleven that share Jupiter’s orbit and nine others originating from regions beyond Neptune.
- Deputy Director Željko Ivezić said the observatory can outdo two centuries of asteroid discoveries in just a few years, making movies to detect moving and changing brightness objects.
- Rubin is expected to find millions of new asteroids, including about 100,000 NEOs, providing earlier warnings of potential threats and vastly improving Solar System inventories.
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