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Indian schoolgirls discover asteroids moving towards Earth

Radhika Lakhani and Vaidehi Vekariya, both studying in tenth grade, were working on a school project when they discovered the asteroid, which they named HLV2514. The girls, from the city of Surat in western India’s Gujarat state, were participating in a Space India and NASA project, which allows students to …

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Indian schoolgirls discover asteroids moving toward Earth

Radhika Lakhani and Vaidehi Vekariya, both studying in tenth grade, were working on a school project when they discovered the asteroid, which they named HLV2514. The girls, from the city of Surat in western India’s Gujarat state, were participating in a Space India and NASA project, which allows students to …

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School girls in India discover a terrestrial asteroid

AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) – Two teenagers from India discovered a terrestrial asteroid by studying images from the University of Hawaii telescope, an Indian space education institute said Monday. The asteroid is currently near Mars and its orbit is expected to cross that of Earth in about a million years, said …

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