{"id":30304,"date":"2025-06-23T15:50:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=30304"},"modified":"2025-06-23T16:25:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T16:25:56","slug":"vera-rubin-telescope-quickly-found-1200-new-asteroids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=30304","title":{"rendered":"Vera Rubin Telescope Quickly Found 1,200 New Asteroids"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p id=\"article-summary\" class=\"css-79rysd e1wiw3jv0\">The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to find millions of unknown objects in our solar system, and perhaps even a mysterious Planet Nine.<\/p>\n<section class=\"meteredContent css-1r7ky0e\">\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\" data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">More than a million asteroids, some of them potential threats to Earth. Asteroids with tails like comets. Interstellar objects that happen to be swinging by our sun. (Could they be alien spaceships?) More distant worlds including, perhaps, a ninth planet, which could fill in the story of our solar system\u2019s turbulent youth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Those are some of the discoveries that the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is expected to make in the cosmic neighborhood that is our solar system. (Maybe not the alien spaceships.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI think that we\u2019re going to completely transform our view of the solar system and rewrite that textbook over the next few years.\u201d said Meg Schwamb, a planetary scientist at Queen\u2019s University Belfast in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"css-15h6bi9 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-190837e9\"><span>Saving the Planet While Stargazing<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Rubin\u2019s scans of the night sky will also help make Earth a safer place, spotting potentially dangerous asteroids that have so far eluded detection.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"Dropzone-1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\" data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Most asteroids are found in the belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. 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Rubin Observatory is expected to find millions of unknown objects in our solar system, and perhaps even a mysterious Planet Nine.More than a million asteroids, some of them potential threats to Earth. Asteroids with tails like comets. Interstellar objects that happen to be swinging by our sun. (Could they be alien spaceships?) More distant worlds including, perhaps, a ninth planet, which could fill in the story of our solar system\u2019s turbulent youth.Those are some of the discoveries that the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is expected to make in the cosmic neighborhood that is our solar system. (Maybe not the alien spaceships.)\u201cI think that we\u2019re going to completely transform our view of the solar system and rewrite that textbook over the next few years.\u201d said Meg Schwamb, a planetary scientist at Queen\u2019s University Belfast in Northern Ireland.Saving the Planet While StargazingRubin\u2019s scans of the night sky will also help make Earth a safer place, spotting potentially dangerous asteroids that have so far eluded detection.Most asteroids are found in the belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. But some of those space rocks have been deflected onto paths that could cross paths with our planet.Astronomers are certain that there is nothing the size of the six-mile-wide asteroid that killed the dinosaurs that poses a danger of colliding with Earth anytime soon. 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