Forget an A+ — two teenage girls in India far surpassed getting an excellent grade when they happened to stumble upon an Earth-bound asteroid.
Vaidehi Vekariya and Radhika Lakhani, Grade 10 students from the city of Surat in the western Indian state of Gujarat, were participating in a joint SPACE India and NASA project, the International Astronomical Search Collaboration (IASC), which allows students to analyze images taken by a telescope located at the University of Hawaii.
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2 high school girls in India discover asteroid moving toward Earth while working on project with
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.
watch how NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will navigate to an asteroid
'I wanted to create a piece that's completely unnoticeable and so familiar, you're just going to walk past it.'
affecting the metal's chemicals, different heated temperatures cause the car's steel body to change in shade.
the team aims to make MRI scans accessible to a wider population, enabling early detection of dementia and stroke prevention.
they are 'revolutionizing the auto industry by ree-thinking, ree-inventing and ree-structuring the way we make cars'.
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Space objects defined: The differences between comets, meteors, and asteroids | RochesterFirst
ROCHESTER, NY (WROC) – One of the biggest science headlines of July 2020 has been the Neowise Comet that graced skies of the Northern Hemisphere for weeks on end. Let’s dive into the difference between the flying objects we see in space here. We will go in alphabetical order.
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A rock material that revolves around the sun and remains in orbit. Think of an asteroid as a rock that hangs out with other asteroids in a large belt within the solar system inbetween Mars and Jupiter. You may recognize this from popular space movies such as Star Wars that frequently features asteroid belts or asteroid fields.
Asteroids may be the reason Earth is covered in water
The origin of water on Earth has long been a contested question — water forms in the course of many chemical reactions, and it is also a major component of comets. So, researchers frequently debate which of these is the ultimate source of most of the water on our planet.
A new study reveals that chemical reactions within asteroids may have freed water, slowly covering the Earth in water.
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