YouTube is a trash magnet. There, I said it. YouTube gives a platform to incompetents and competents alike, and therefore enables misinformation, disinformation, and outright lying.
But every so often, a competent posts content, and YouTube is a distribution mechanism. It’s just a matter of being able to sort the pearls from the rotting detritus. Well, here’s a chance: go watch Vera Rubin Observatory astronomer Meg Schwamb lecture about the Observatory’s coming role in asteroid (-slash-comet) discovery:
https://www.public.ast.cam.ac.uk/rubinverse-exploring-solar-system-vera-c-rubin-observatory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d_3gsDId5c
Into the Rubinverse: Exploring the Solar System with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory
To an extent, this is stuff covered by this blog before. I’ve certainly mentioned things here and there, like the anticipated small-body deluge, and the synergy between Rubin and the Comet Interceptor project. Still, it’s good to see it all in one place, and from an authoritative source: Dr. Schwamb has been a Solar-System astronomer long before Vera Rubin, and has been quite instrumental (no pun intended) in getting us to this point. Have a look… then don’t watch the so-called related videos YouTube suggests.