| It's just earlier this week we have an HN front-page news on the sophisticated Rubin telescope [1]. According to its Wikipedia entry, "Rubin is expected to catalog millions of supernovae, more than five million asteroids (including ~100,000 near-Earth objects), and image approximately 17 billion stars and 20 billion galaxies." [2] I guess this this reported meteor is the one that got away, or perhaps it's beyond its scope of monitoring the Southern sky. But even if it's monitoring the Northern hemisphere it will most probably going to miss it due to the puny size of the meteor, more like a small tent instead of a skyscrapper. >The meteor was about five feet wide, according to the space agency, with a mass of 5.6 metric tons (that's about the weight of a large elephant.) [1] Rubin Tracks Skyscraper-Size Asteroids and Failed Supernovas: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48352500 [2] Vera C. Rubin Observatory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_C._Rubin_Observatory |