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Monday, June 14, 2010

New NEO confirmations

Greetings from the International Astronomical Search Collaboration

Congratulations are in order...

Congratulations go to Chawla, Saini, Aggarwal, Bansal, & Chopra for the NEO confirmation of 2010 LM34 on June 10th.  These five students are from Bal Bharti Public School, Rajinder Naga (India).  Good job!!

Also on June 10th, Toshkov, Mircheva, Ivanova, Stoyanova, & Marinova from Vaptzarov Language School (Bulgaria) observed a comet, 2008 N1.

The following are the NEO confirmations made to date in the current IASC search campaigns:

Object  
2010 JF87     Sanyal & Milind Gyan Bharti, Saket      India   05/15/10
2010 KA8     Jain, Aggarwal, Gupta, Gill, Mittal, & Mehta    Amity International School, Saket, India   05/20/10
2010 KJ37    Penhor & Carvalho       Instituto Superior Politécnico  Sao Tome        05/23/10
2010 KB61   N. Gupta        Indirpauram School      India   06/01/10
2010 LN14   Singh, Kumar, Chaterjee, & Gari Greenway Modern School, Dilshad Garden  India   06/07/10
2010 LM34  Chawla, Saini, Aggarwal, Bansal, & Chopra Bal Bharti Public School, Rajinder Nagar, India   06/10/10

The Discoveries & Observations page on the IASC home page will be updated later today.  In addition to these important confirmations, there are many new NEO observations to report.

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