In a press conference on Monday, the observatory revealed that in 10 hours, the [Vera Rubin] telescope detected 2,104 new asteroids and seven space objects close to Earth. All other space and ground surveys combined usually find about 20,000 asteroids in a year.
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Cool! Went back and watched Dr. Becky’s explanation of the Vera Rubin from last year. It’s doing a full survey of the southern sky every 3 nights to detect changing things.