NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Spots Record-Breaking Asteroid in Pre-Survey Observations - First peer-reviewed paper using LSST Camera data identifies an asteroid, nearly the size of eight football... Astronomers analyzing data from 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 discovered the fas...

Rubin finds 710m asteroid spinning every 1.88 mins—70x faster than “rubble piles” should allow. Solid rock? Primordial monolith? Solar system just got stronger. #RubinObservatory #AsteroidParadox

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