Astronomers discover fastest-ever spinning asteroid — over half a kilometer wide — using the world's largest digital camera stationed at the Rubin Observatory

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Astronomers discover fastest-ever spinning asteroid — over half a kilometer wide — using the world's largest digital camera stationed at the Rubin Observatory

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Astronomy@mander.xyzEnglish · 27 days ago

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory spots record-breaking asteroid in pre-survey observations

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First peer-reviewed paper using data from SLAC-built LSST Camera identifies an asteroid, nearly the size of eight football fields, rotating every two minutes.

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