New Delhi (CNN) Two Indian schoolgirls have discovered an asteroid which is slowly shifting its orbit and moving toward Earth.
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Surat girls discover near-Earth asteroid 'HLV2514' which will pass Earth in distant future -
Two Surat girls helped discover a near-Earth asteroid , which has been christened as HLV2514 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Both the girls, Vaidehi Vekariya Sanjaybhai and Radhika Lakhani Prafulbhai, are studying in PP Savani Chaitanya Vidya Sankul in Class 10 and discovered the asteroid as a part of an international campaign.
They had participated in a two-month science programme called the ‘All India Asteroid Search Campaign 2020’ which was conducted by SPACE India in collaboration with International Astronomical Search Collaboration (IASC) and Hardin Simmons University in Texas. Space India announced on its social media page that the near-Earth object (NEO) is currently near the planet Mars, and will evolve into an Earth-crossing asteroid in the distant future.
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And then there are the IIE meteorites. These weird middle-ground objects appear to be both types at once, made up of once-melted metal with rocky inclusions. More than 20 of these have been discovered since the 1960s, and they've been found to have come from a parent body that had a liquid metal core wrapped in a rocky outer layer.
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Mind you — because some folks worry about this sort of thing — this doesn't affect anything now . It's not like we're suddenly seeing more than twice as many impacts since, like, yesterday. We're talking about an increase that started before the dinosaurs even got their start.
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Researchers calculated that the meteoroids had a total mass 30 to 60 times that of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.
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.
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