Aerial view of Vera C. Rubin Observatory (L) and Gemini Sur Observatory (R) located in the Pachon hill, approximately 80 km from the city of La Serena, in the Coquimbo Region, Chile, taken on January 24, 2024.
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Recently, scientists discovered the fastest-spinning large asteroid in the solar system.
It’s about the length of eight football fields — but it fully rotates every two minutes, or even a little faster.
That and about 2000 more new asteroids were identified from some of the first images captured by the brand-new Vera C. Rubin Observatory, home to the biggest digital camera on earth.
If these are just the first images, what else do we expect to find?
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