Rubin More Than Doubles Neptune Trojan Count: Two Trailing Relics Emerge From Milky Way's Shadow
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Neptune Trojan asteroids: Rubin Observatory's pre-survey commissioning data has doubled the known confirmed population of Neptune's trailing L5 cloud, adding two billion-year-stable Trojans from a swarm hidden by the galactic plane for fifteen years; full LSST survey is projected to grow the confirmed count tenfold over the coming decade.
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