The James Webb Space Telescope may have accidentally discovered an asteroid that NASA says is likely the smallest observed to date by the $10 billion-dollar observatory.
accidentally found an asteroid, and NASA says it's likely the smallest observed to date by the observatory.
The observations were published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics. They were not designed to hunt for new asteroids and were calibration. The calibration team considered the observations to have failed for technical reasons, but data on the asteroid 10920 were used by the team to establish and test and new technique to constrain an object’s orbit and to estimate its size.
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