Vera C. Rubin Observatory has Discovered 11,000 New Asteroids

vibe42

Something related and fun is parsing a simple CSV file of exoplanets. https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/TblView/np... Download Table -> All Columns, All Rows. Tried a few new, open, local AI models by giving them the CSV file and asking them to write a simple python script: 1. Parse all rows and build statistical distribution of mass, radius etc. 2. Use those distributions to generate fictional exoplanets. Playing with this for a space game idea where star systems are populated with fictional exoplanets, but all their params are from the real statistical distributions of all known exoplanets. A way to get some harder sci-fi using real world data :)

throw0101a

Any collisions that Earth has to worry about? (Once heard the observation that the dinosaurs didn't go extinct because of an impact: they went extinct because they didn't have a space program.)

NooneAtAll3

> The dataset also includes roughly 380 trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), two of which have extremely large, elongated orbits (provisionally named 2025 LS2 and 2025 MX348) Orbit uncertainty 7 and 9, aka almost- and totally-useless