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Re:Astronomers delete asteroid because it turned out to be T... by userbinator on Sunday January 26, 2025 @05:35PM (#42834922)
That headline reads like something from The Onion.

More seriously, if they are tracking objects orbiting near the earth, I think the origin of them shouldn't matter.

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Re:Astronomers delete asteroid because it turned out to be T... by Demlmlm on Sunday January 26, 2025 @05:42PM (#42834973)
It's tracked as debris and not an asteroid.

It was deleted because it's already tracked

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Re:Astronomers delete asteroid because it turned out to be T... by heironimus on Sunday January 26, 2025 @06:16PM (#42835319)
So the takeaway I get is that these two databases should be cross linked so this doesn’t happen again. Maybe there’s a community of software developers who could help.
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Re:Astronomers delete asteroid because it turned out to be T... by dentemple on Sunday January 26, 2025 @06:53PM (#42835615)
If only there were some sort of article explaining the need for transparency between organizations regarding these things.
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Re:Astronomers delete asteroid because it turned out to be T... by codeflo on Sunday January 26, 2025 @07:10PM (#42835769)
That would be great. Instead, we got an article vaguely demanding "transparency" for "untracked" objects, when the motivating example for the article is an object that was actually very well tracked and was launched with millions of witnesses live on stream.
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Re:Astronomers delete asteroid because it turned out to be T... by minetest2048 on Sunday January 26, 2025 @08:40PM (#42836410)
This: https://compasse.aas.org/aas-releases-a-compasse-led-stateme...
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Re:Astronomers delete asteroid because it turned out to be T... by RandomBacon on Sunday January 26, 2025 @06:40PM (#42835516)
Quick! Someone write the Falsehoods Programmers Make About Space article.
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