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And this next one here was about a huge asteroid that was lost in the glare of the sun. It was a farmer, he was a farmer at the Carnegie Science Research Institute, his name was Scott Shepherd. And the spot of the object was 2025 SC79 on September 27. And the object was the sun's glare, and that's because of that it rendered it almost impossible to see. And the asteroids that are the most dangerous are the ones most difficult to detect. And those near the sun, they're only seen during twilight when the sun is just over the, just around the horizon. That's a lot of glare and the light from the sun, and you can get an idea or a glimpse of where some of these things are. So asteroid 2025 SC79, it's a city color at about 2,200 feet in diameter. It has the potential to reach 500 times more energy than the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima. 2025 SC79, it was discovered by using the dark energy camera on the National Science Foundation's NSF Palko 4-meter telescope, and then confirmed with the NSF Gemini telescope and the Carnegie Science Magellan telescope as well. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology