An artist’s illustration depicts 2025 MN45—the fastest-rotating asteroid with a diameter over 500 meters that scientists have ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN
World’s largest camera detects fastest-spinning asteroid with diameter over 0.3 miles
The asteroid, 2025 MN45, completes a full rotation once every 1.88 minutes, meaning it must have a very high strength to keep ...
2025 MN45 isn't the overall spin-rate record holder. Astronomers have found a number of small asteroids — those just a few ...
Astronomers analyzing data from Vera C. Rubin Observatory have discovered the fastest-ever spinning asteroid with a diameter ...
Astronomers analyzing data from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and ...
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Why NASA wants humans to visit an asteroid before Mars
NASA is considering a mission that would send astronauts to a near-Earth asteroid using SpaceX’s Starship and Falcon Heavy, ...
As part of the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory First Look event in June 2025, Rubin announced that it had observed thousands of asteroids cruising ...
In the fastest observation made, the LSST Camera data identified an asteroid the size of eight football fields that rotated ...
The natural comet interpretation associates the jets with major pockets of ice on the surface of a rotating nucleus. The one that points at the Sun creates a prominent anti-tail jet that extends out ...
Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb warns 3I/ATLAS, tagged a comet by NASA, may be a rare 'Black Swan' or Trojan Horse, urging ...
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Asteroid Behaving Strangely
An international team of astronomers has discovered an asteroid that spins so fast, it should've torn itself apart.
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