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Looking Up: Name That Leftover

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Artist's graphic of the asteroid belt, part of NASA's Dawn Mission Art series.
Credit NASA/McREL / nasa.gov

The 15,000th near-Earth asteroid is designated 2016 TB57, discovered on Oct. 13, 2016, by observers at the Mount Lemmon Survey, an element of the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey in Tucson, Arizona. There's an average of 30 new discoveries added each week.
Credit NASA/JPL-Caltech / nasa.gov