Delhi boys discover asteroids
6 Aug 2012 10:11 AM GMT
In what is being considered a rare feat by experts, four schoolboys from Delhi have discovered two asteroids.
Shubham Sharma and Mayank Sharma of DAV Centenary School, Paschim Vihar and young Astronomicans (amateur astronomer’s wing of SPACE) Sahil Wadhwa and Akshay Gupta, who were part of two separate teams, have made two provisional discoveries of asteroids doing the country proud, SPACE Director C B Devgun said.
‘This marks a rare achievement for SPACE and its associated educational institutes, as asteroids are hard to search for and needs dedication and continuous efforts. Provisional discoveries are the asteroids which have been confirmed by further observations,’ he said.
The teams used exclusive data to look at specific parts of the sky and by using a complex procedure called ‘Astrometrica’ they tracked objects by looking at the images of the sky provided by telescopes-based in the US to see which of the objects moving over time could be a possible asteroid, he said.
IASC Director Patrick Miller has congratulated the two school teams for achieving the rare feat.
Shubham Sharma and Mayank Sharma of DAV Centenary School, Paschim Vihar and young Astronomicans (amateur astronomer’s wing of SPACE) Sahil Wadhwa and Akshay Gupta, who were part of two separate teams, have made two provisional discoveries of asteroids doing the country proud, SPACE Director C B Devgun said.
‘This marks a rare achievement for SPACE and its associated educational institutes, as asteroids are hard to search for and needs dedication and continuous efforts. Provisional discoveries are the asteroids which have been confirmed by further observations,’ he said.
The teams used exclusive data to look at specific parts of the sky and by using a complex procedure called ‘Astrometrica’ they tracked objects by looking at the images of the sky provided by telescopes-based in the US to see which of the objects moving over time could be a possible asteroid, he said.
IASC Director Patrick Miller has congratulated the two school teams for achieving the rare feat.
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