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  1. On the night of February 5, 2026, the #Rubin team submitted a large batch of approximately 20,000 #asteroid candidate discoveries to the #MinorPlanetCenter, corresponding to roughly 246,000 individual observations: minorplanetcenter.net/media/ne - the "MPC successfully processed the entire submission. This unusually large batch provided a valuable end-to end stress test of our pipeline and allowed us to identify a few bottlenecks and areas where performance and automation can be improved."

  2. #CAHA:
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    A new comet discovered with the Schmidt telescope at Calar Alto
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    "In the framework of the Space Safety program of the European Space Agency (ESA), Rainer Kresken, an ESA engineer observing remotely with the Calar Alto Schmidt telescope, reported in December 2025 the discovery of a new comet, P/2025 W3 (Kresken). .."

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    20.1.2026

    #CalarAlto #comet #Darmstadt #ESA #Komet #Kresken #MBC #MinorPlanetCenter #NEOCC #P2025W3 #RainerKresken