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Vera C. Rubin Observatory has Discovered 11,000 New Asteroids

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-vera-c-rubin-observatory-has-discovered-11000-new-asteroids-and-its-barely-even-started
33•tcp_handshaker•2h ago

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vibe42•1h ago
Something related and fun is parsing a simple CSV file of exoplanets.

https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/TblView/np...

Download Table -> All Columns, All Rows.

Tried a few new, open, local AI models by giving them the CSV file and asking them to write a simple python script:

1. Parse all rows and build statistical distribution of mass, radius etc.

2. Use those distributions to generate fictional exoplanets.

Playing with this for a space game idea where star systems are populated with fictional exoplanets, but all their params are from the real statistical distributions of all known exoplanets.

A way to get some harder sci-fi using real world data :)

throw0101a•49m ago
Any collisions that Earth has to worry about?

(Once heard the observation that the dinosaurs didn't go extinct because of an impact: they went extinct because they didn't have a space program.)

akoumjian•13m ago
None yet. Any discoveries made with a possible impact risk would end up on the NEO Confirmation Page for follow up. As soon as an observation arc is long enough and gets a provisional designation, impact risks would be calculated and displayed at both NEOCC and JPL Sentry. We also do impact probability calculations and visualizations at Asteroid Institute.
NooneAtAll3•40m ago
> The dataset also includes roughly 380 trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), two of which have extremely large, elongated orbits (provisionally named 2025 LS2 and 2025 MX348)

Orbit uncertainty 7 and 9, aka almost- and totally-useless