Vera Rubin Observatory discovers fastest spinning asteroid ever and its huge!

Artist’s illustration of 2025 MN45, the fastest-spinning big asteroid known, which finishes a full rotation every 1.88 minutes. (Image credit: NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/SLAC/AURA/P. Marenfeld) A powerful new telescope in South America is already offering tantalizing hints of what it can do. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory began studying the heavens from a ChileanContinue Reading