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Delhi students discover two new asteroids
Nagaland Post | Amrita Madhukalya | 16 August 2014 - 5:20am IST
Four Delhi school students have successfully pointed out to hitherto unknown asteroids. Named 2014 00372 and 2014 OU6, the two asteroids will now be placed in the global minor body catalogue maintained by the International Astronomical Union (Paris).
Aryan Mishra and Keerti Vardhan, two class IX students of Chinmaya Vidyalaya, Vasant Vihar, and, Akshat Sharma and Kshitij Jindal of class XI of Bal Bharti Public School, Pitampura, chanced upon the discoveries during the All India Asteroid Search Campaign. Another team from Manipur, of Dhairya Bhimwal and Ronaldo Laishram, had carried out a preliminary discovery which awaits validation. If proven, their observation could also be a discovery.
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