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Astronomers generally keep their eyes into heaven, but on Monday June 23, the public focused on Washington, DC Scientists from Vera C. Rubin Observatory presented the first images of the telescope. Many have been waiting for more than 20 years to see Rubin in action and the initial findings did not disappoint.
Rubin, the joint initiative of the Department of Science (NSF) and Energy (DOE), recently consists of the first 10 hours of testing observations. In this shortly, the observatory prepared a dazzling images and revealed seven-land asteroids, including more than 7,000 unknown asteroids. None of them threatens our planet, but this wealth of these new information proved that the observatory was a game change for asteroid hunters working on the planetary protection in the observatory. With unprecedented fast and detailed surveys of the whole southern sky, he will allow Rubin scientists to find and watch spacecraft than before.
“As this camera system was compiled, we all knew what would happen to this, but it exceeded all our expectations,” he said.
Information about this 2000 new asteroid is a direct catalog and a well-known organization in the world, directory and dissemination of a small planetary association (MPC), asteroids, comets and other small celestial bodies. Early detection and monitoring of threatening asteroids in the earth play an important role. MPC is preparing to reduce data from Rubin to process programs to process the amount of observation of observation. In the first round, when he was officially exposed to Monday, MTC Director Matthew Payne, MTC Director MTC Director of MattHew Payne.
It just tasted what happens. In a few months, Rubin will start the inheritance of the southern heaven, a ten-year long, sustainable residential survey (LST). This will produce the Ultrawide of the universe, the ultra high-precision time break record. In terms of asteroids, say, according to Payne, it means that 250 million grain observations per year from LSST will receive 250 million grain observations a year. “For us, we are a game change in the total amount of information we have achieved, because in the meantime, we reach a place in 50 million in the year,” he said.
How does Rubin do that?
Ruby’s remarkable abilities are caused by significant tools. The unique is equipped with three mirror telescope design The largest digital camera built so farYes, this observatory may still have all the sky inquiries when revealing very weak objects as asteroids. This bridges with the main space between existing technologies explained.
When the spacecraft was hunting, “None of the survey telescopes in the world in the world, the MPC Astrophysicist said. It will cover an area of about 45 times. Then, the large LST camera will take a wide area and paste them into each other to create a full view of the southern sky.
Congress in 2005 orderly To establish a nearby object of NASA (NEO), at least 328 feet (100 meters) to discover the physical features of the nearest area and comets, to watch, direct physical properties of comets. If one of these objects hit our planet, it will cause a mass destruction that will be created in the continental scale. The goal was to find 90% of them until 2020, but now the current estimates show that NASA is only 40%. LSST can help take NASA tempo. “This people intend to revolutionize our understanding of this population,” said Payne.
Binzel is satisfied. “It’s not there, not there, or not there,” he said. “Now we will see them and we will be able to determine the best, the best news, the best news and something in the coming decades continues to pass our place safely.
Designed, this will give the NASA planetary Defense Coordinating Office (PDOC) time to start a mission to catch the asteroid. Pdoc still develops this ability, but in 2022 Double Asteroid Routing Test (Dart) Mission beganAsteroid Moonlet sent a spacecraft sent a spacecraft on a 10-month trip to collide with Dimorphos. The collision has successfully changed the ability of NASA’s ability to remove a large asteroid in a great asteroid in the event of sufficient time.
NASA didn’t admire?
Ruby will wait for the open potential and global focus to revolutionary planetary efforts to read the Praise of NASA. This was not the case. It seems that the launch of the Agency Observatory and in fact, the first discoveries of Ruby completely ignore.
“Asteroids are a search of a search,” Keith Cowing, a astrobiologist and former NASA employee, which serves as NASA Watch editor, said Gizmodoya. “You think planetary protection people” send me information! “
NASA did not share any social information about Monday and did not preach the results of the observatory. Gizmodo was rejected NASA to comment on Ruby’s planetary science and defense contribution, and instead recommended to reach the observatory.
On Tuesday, June 24, the agency’s inspector General President published report On the implementation and management of NASA’s planetary defense strategy. Only NASA’s NASA’s neo surveyor, a spacecraft designed to find the Earth, celebrated Rubin in a short way. “These new observarrians will probably find more neo and monitored, it is likely to be a significant increase in the necessary persecution observations.
NASA’s PDCO and the planetary science program will surely use the information collected by LST, so what’s on cold shoulder? Awing thinks that this is a sign of the agency’s internal confusion. “They are joking in NASA,” he said. “Their budgets are cut on all sides – they do not know what the last budget will happen, but the White House wants to shoot it and react to it with everything in his hand.”
Indeed, President Donald Trump’s 2026 budget proposal Cut NASA’s Science Finance 40% with a large and kill more than 40 missions potentially Planet Society. “The only good news is what is not struck.”
It is suspected that most of NASA employees are in the planetary defense staff-Survival mode. “If you don’t just know if you don’t have a job, what do you do if you do your job or need to compete for the same job?” The rain was asked. “This is in the heart of this. This is a common faulty and scary and people simply do not see everyday, professional, collaboration, collegial work.”
It is unknown whether NASA scored, whether there is resources and staff to fully use the Ruby’s data of the agency. Although PDCO currently causes the planetary defense efforts in the world, it can change soon. Binzel, but optimistic. “Great nations are big sciences,” he said. “I believe that our people will continue to do great sciences.
