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 National Aeronautics and ministration (NASA). Both girls, Vaidehi Vekariya Sanjaybhai and Rhika Lakhani Prafulbhai, are studying in PP Savani Chaitanya Vidya Sankul in Class 10 and discovered asteroid as a part of an international campaign. 

y h participated in a two-month science programme called ‘All India Asteroid Search Campaign 2020’ which was conducted by India in collaboration with International Astromical Search Collaboration (IASC) and Hardin Simmons University in Texas. India anunced on its social media p that near-Earth object (NEO) is currently near planet Mars, and will evolve into an Earth-crossing asteroid in distant future.

“We congratulate both students and teachers for tremendous discovery,” said institution.

Vaidehi and Rhika used Pan Starrs telescope in Hawaii to discover NEO and took ims of asteroid with its high-gre CCD cameras, and higher Field of View. Congratulatory messs poured in for girls on social media with netizens calling it a proud moment for all of us.

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'Mini-moon'

Recently, Kacper Wierzchos and odore Pruyne, astromers at Catalina Sky Survey, discovered a possible ‘mini-moon’ about size of a car orbiting Earth. After locating asteroid, it was named 2020 CD3 but was deemed a temporary one which, probably, would t last long. 

Astromers believe that newly discovered mini-moon will be gone by Spring and what's even more surprising is fact that it has been orbiting Earth for at least three years without being ticed. Astromer Kacper Wierzchos tweeted a video showing mini-moon. In ar tweet he mentioned, 

" object has a diameter between 1.9 - 3.5 m assuming a C- asteroid albedo. But it's a big deal as out of ~ 1 million kwn asteroids, this is just second asteroid kwn to orbit Earth (after 2006 RH120, which was also discovered by Catalina Sky Survey)."

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