MPC and the Rubin First Look

At long last, the first data from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory are starting to become public! Here at the Minor Planet Center we were not only watching last week’s Rubin “First Look” event — we had some work to do too. Asteroid-hunting and planetary defense have always been a major piece of Rubin’s science case. When it hits full steam, Rubin will increase the rate of observations coming into the…