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306 points gammarator | 1 comments | 03 Jul 25 03:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source

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ordu ◴[03 Jul 25 05:27 UTC] No.44451907[source]▶

Judging by how humanity didn't see any of those for millennia and now three in just several years, I can propose two hypotheses:

1. Astronomers became good enough to notice them 2. These rocks are first in an incoming flood of such objects, the Universe decided to destroy humanity.

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1. polytely ◴[03 Jul 25 10:59 UTC] No.44453743[source]▶

>>44451907 #

Vera Rubin just came online, will will start to do surveys of the entire sky every 3 nights, which makes spotting stuff like this easier.

https://youtu.be/X3N-DjVXh44

so we are probably gonna notice a lot more of them

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