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The Minor Planet Center (MPC) published the object in MPEC 2023-O26, issued 18 July 2023. It is an Apollo-type potentially hazardous asteroid about 600 feet across with an Earth MOID of 0.0015 AU and no foreseeable risk to Earth. The sources call HelioLinc3D an algorithm, not a learned model.", "category": "benefit created", "unexpected": false, "purpose": "Built as Rubin Observatory's linking algorithm to discover moving objects, including near-Earth asteroids, from sparse multi-night detections. 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