Failed observations of a specific target using the JWST have resulted in something way more interesting.
, discovered in 1998 and measuring 15.7 kilometers across. Unfortunately, the JWST observations were not particularly good ones: the telescope wasn't quite oriented correctly, and the images of the target were way too bright and blown out.
Surprise! The bright object at the bottom is 10920; the new candidate asteroid is the faint dot circled above. The discovery is yet to be confirmed, but if it is, it will be one of the smallest asteroids ever discovered in the Main Belt. Detecting asteroids of this size is vitally important for studies of the size-frequency distribution of objects in the belt.
And the smaller ones are much harder to detect than larger ones. Which makes spotting one accidentally a bit of a coup, really.
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