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Khabre desk
Recent reporting, analysis and explainers from the asteroids desk.
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NASA says the Psyche spacecraft began using its solar-powered thrusters nearly 90% of the time after a Mars gravity assist. The extended thrusting is intended to keep it on course for an asteroid rendezvous in summer 2029.
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A preprint analysing the Rubin Observatory’s Data Preview 2 asteroid catalogue reports two asteroids larger than 2 km completing a rotation in about five minutes. Its method adjusts the complexity of each asteroid’s light-curve model and can retain multiple possible periods when one cannot be selected reliably.