Webb Detects Extremely Small Main Belt Asteroid

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485380
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Monday, February 6, 2023 - 10:00
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An asteroid roughly the size of Rome’s Colosseum — between 300 to 650 feet (100 to 200 meters) in length — has been detected by an international team of European astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.