![]() ![]() The observatory may even find the hypothetical Planet Nine, a large world that some astronomers believe is hiding at the solar system’s peripheries. VRO will double that in three to six months. Two centuries later, a million were known. The first asteroid was discovered in 1801. ![]() The asteroid tally will almost immediately skyrocket. ![]() “It’s going to be a quite complete catalogue of everything in the solar system out to and beyond Neptune,” says Mario Jurić, an astronomer at the University of Washington working with VRO. This includes distant objects, from convulsing stars to cosmic explosions, but also the countless objects in the solar system that have eluded skygazers. ![]()
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