Wednesday, August 2, 2023

New algorithm ensnares its first ‘potentially hazardous’ asteroid | UW News

Discovery images from the ATLAS survey, with 2022 SF289 visible in the red boxes. ATLAS/University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy/NASA

An asteroid discovery algorithm — designed to uncover near-Earth asteroids for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory 's upcoming 10-year survey of the night sky — has identified its first "potentially hazardous" asteroid, a term for space rocks in Earth's vicinity that scientists like to keep an eye on.

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