Sarah Rugheimer

Amazing.

Excited to hear what you think of it then.

Yeah, so I think what's cool about this is you have to think about what are asteroids in general.

So asteroids are sort of this leftover mess from the early solar system from when our planets were forming.

And that means they're often just kind of clumps of little pebbles.

And I mean, kind of think of dust bunnies in your house under your couch, but with also bigger, slightly like bigger pebbly sort of objects and they kind of just hold together.

And so what's weird about this is it can't be that.

So it's spinning quite fast.

And that means if it was just this sort of dust bunny collection of pebbles, it would rip apart.

And so it has to be rock.

Fly off, exactly.

Indeed, indeed.

So this is the weird thing about this.

And it's not like it's so atypical.

We've seen other asteroids like this, asteroids that spin even faster.

It's just a cool object.

And Vera Rubin is discovering this first in some of its first observations.

And so...

Yeah, I think it's pretty cool.

It's a fast spinning asteroid.