Space-Scanning Algorithm Spots 'Potentially Hazardous' 600-Foot Asteroid
is its 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time, which will image the night sky about once per week. The observatory sits high in Chile’s Atacama Desert, giving it clear views of space without much atmospheric distortion or light pollution.but has been hampered by issues like the covid-19 pandemic. It is now slated to begin operations in 2025.
“The main deal is just get as much of the sky as quickly as possible and just [image it] repeatedly,” Steven Kahn, an astrophysicist and the director of the Rubin Observatory, 2022 SF289 was previously imaged three times on separate nights, but never four times in one night, which is necessary for the object to be classified as a Near Earth Object ,“This is just a small taste of what to expect with the Rubin Observatory in less than two years, when HelioLinc3D will be discovering an object like this every night,” said Mario Jurić, a scientist at the Rubin Observatory, director of the DiRAC Institute, astronomer at the University of Washington, and leader of the team...
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