Rubin Observatory Spots Over 11,000 Asteroids in Record Haul

Rubin Observatory Spots Over 11,000 Asteroids in Record Haul

Astronomers just can’t catch a break from Rubin.

Early Data from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Reveals Over 11,000 New Asteroids - Rubin’s largest asteroid haul yet, gathered before the Legacy Survey of Space and Time even begins, is just the “tip of the iceberg”

Scientists at NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, have submitted an unprecedented set of asteroid detections to the IAU Minor Planet Center, including hundreds of distant worlds beyond Neptune and 33 previously unknown near-Earth asteroids.