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Record-Setting Asteroid Found in Pre-Survey Data from Vera Rubin Observatory


Astronomers have detected an extraordinary asteroid, named 2025 MN45, in early data from the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera -- the largest digital camera in the world -- at the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory.

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