When its first observations were released on June 23, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory had detected 2,104 new asteroids in seven nights, including seven near-Earth objects.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by official Rubin Observatory/NSF-DOE press release and corroborated by NASA and multiple independent science news outlets.
Sources
- July 5: the day the world was due to end – Cosmos (cosmos.isas.jaxa.jp)
- https://rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-first-look (rubinobservatory.org)
- https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/vera-c-rubin-observatory-releases-first-images/ (nasa.gov)