First of all what is Asteroid:
Asteroids are a class of Small Solar System Bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones.(From Wiki)
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- Vaibhav Sapra and Sharanjeet Singh Both from Bal Bharati Public School, Pitampura, have discovered a Main Belt Asteroid as part of NASA project, ready for create and save name in history.
- Both are Science students.
- This research is conducted by non-government organisation called Science Popularisation Association of Communicators and Educators (SPACE) in collaboration with the United States-based International Astronomical Search Collaboration, the All-India Asteroid Search Campaign-2011.
- This is done in the month of August.
- It involved school and college students from across the country working with a special software to discover asteroids.
- The students, divided into groups of two each, collaborated and analysed their data for asteroid hunting.
- It was a challenging task for Vaibhav and Sharanjeet, to jointly detect the asteroid from a series of pictures of the sky.
Sharanjeet told to the media that, it was the three-month-long campaign.
- it involved software training, studying and spotting moving objects on the highly-advanced Astrometrica software.
- We had to assume the shape of the asteroid.
- For each image, there was a graph which we had to jointly analyse and prepare a report.
- Once the report was completed, the duo despatched it to renowned astrophysicist and head of International Astronomical Search Collaboration Miller Patrick.
- Since there is an official confirmation of discovering “2011QM14,” the name of the new asteroid, both Vaibhav and Sharanjeet will now have to wait till its orbit is completely known
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