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The year humanity stopped naming asteroids like discoveries and started numbering them like inventory.

means An asteroid approximately 8.5 kilometers wide, notable mostly for being the 8757th catalogued minor planetproof that even space rocks eventually become spreadsheet entries.

from Named Terriledonna after it was officially designated by the Minor Planet Center. The numbering system began in 1801 when Giuseppe Piazzi discovered Ceres; now we're deep enough in the catalog that rock names feel like warehouse SKUs.

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