VERIFIED QUOTE · reported 2026-10-30
“Objects like this are very rare, so I immediately started checking whether I or the code had done something wrong.”
Matthew Holman · said 2026-10-27 · reported 2026-10-30
Holman explains that he immediately began verifying his discovery of the unusually large trans-Neptunian object.
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