A newly spotted asteroid spins faster than any of its size ever seen

The asteroid was found in the first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

A large oblong space rock sails through a field of other asteroids on a black background

The newly discovered asteroid 2025 MN45, illustrated here, is the fastest spinning asteroid larger than 500 meters ever found. It spins once every 112 seconds.

NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory/SLAC and NOIRLab/AURA, P. Marenfeld

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