It’s not really an asteroid, nor maybe really a protoplanet.
If real, an observation could be of another solar system planet. But it’s too preliminary to say yet.
Nothing about this story isn ’t really big
White House press corps being stacked with believers in nonsense
It was worth the wait. Also, Congrats to Kerry-Ann Lecky Hepburn for getting an asteroid!
New observations indicate it’s aimed away from us
Citizen science group is finding “active asteroids”
Waving bye-bye to Zuck’s domain, and a new (to us) planet is tugging on others in its system
New study shows no sign of chemicals at all from the exoplanet, let alone biosignatures
52246 Donaldjohanson is a space rock full of surprises
As always: don’t panic
I’m not even convinced they found the molecules they claim to have found
