The Minor Planet Center confirmed the discoveries on March 11. The team observed Saturn repeatedly between 2019 and 2021 and ...

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An international team of astronomers working with the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have discovered a whopping 128 more ...

As observations of the asteroid continued to be submitted to the Minor Planet Center, experts at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s (JPL's) Center for Near-Earth Object Studies were able to ...

It added, "As observations of the asteroid continued to be submitted to the Minor Planet Center, experts at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies were able to ...

"As observations of the asteroid continued to be submitted to the Minor Planet Center, experts at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s (JPL’s) Center for Near-Earth Object Studies were able to ...

“As observations of the asteroid continued to be submitted to the Minor Planet Center, experts at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies were able to calculate ...

If it is real, then they check it against catalogs of known objects, and if it is new, they then report it to the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center, which makes the ...