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  • Indian schoolgirls discover asteroid moving toward Earth

    07/30/2020 3:20:38 PM PDT · by voicereason · 32 replies
    CNN ^ | 07/28/2020 | Swati Gupta and Amy Woodyatt
    Two Indian schoolgirls have discovered an asteroid which is slowly shifting its orbit and moving toward Earth. Radhika Lakhani and Vaidehi Vekariya, both studying in 10th grade, were working on a school project when they discovered the asteroid, which they named HLV2514. The girls, from the city of Surat in the western Indian state of Gujarat, were participating in a Space India and NASA project, which allows students to analyze images taken by a telescope positioned at the University of Hawaii. Aakash Dwivedi, senior educator and astronomer at Space India, told CNN that students across India were taught how to...