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Vera C. Rubin Observatory discovers enormous, record-breaking asteroid in first 7 nights of observations
In its preliminary data release, taken from just seven nights of observations, the powerful Vera C. Rubin Observatory has ...
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Newly discovered asteroid spins at record-breaking speed
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory detected nearly 2,000 new asteroids in about 10 hours, including MM45, rotating in under two ...
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Record-Breaking Asteroid Spins So Fast It Should Tear Itself Apart
For large Main Belt asteroids, that break-apart point was set at a spin period of about 2.2 hours – a hard limit suggested by ...
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Asteroid Behaving Strangely
“For objects in the main asteroid belt, the fast-rotation limit to avoid being fragmented is 2.2 hours; asteroids spinning ...
Scientists discover asteroid spinning once every 1.88 minutes—the fastest rotation ever found for a large space rock. Five ...
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Forget gold, this is the real treasure hidden in asteroids
A new study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS) explores the long-debated potential of ...
Astronomers analyzing data from Vera C. Rubin Observatory have discovered the fastest-ever spinning asteroid with a diameter ...
Scientists find ‘record-breaking’ asteroid nearly the size of eight football fields. Is it close to Earth? - The asteroid was ...
A record-breaking asteroid has been discovered by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory just seven days after it began its observations. Based on this performance result, scientists and astronomers can expect ...
But Rubin’s early data is confounding. Among the newly discovered asteroids, researchers identified 76 with reliable spin ...
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