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Monday, August 16, 2010

AIASC Concludes with a Bang!

AIASC Phase II has concluded with a bang!

New Discovery:
VTP0002 observed by V. Narang, T. Paranjape, & P. Srivastava (all SPACE Educators) on August 8th in image set 2010 PP2 has been designated as a newly-discovered asteroid 2010 PV57.

A second asteroid discovery in that same image set is 2010 PU57, as observed by IASC astronomer Tom Vorobjov.  Credit for this discovery is also shared with V. Narang, T. Paranjape, & P. Srivastava.

Main Belt Asteroid Discovery
Main Belt Asteroid was discovered by students A. Singh and S. Wadhwa from Ryan International School last week.

Virtual Impactor Observation
Students Pallav Jhaveri, Aadesh Shah, & Manank Shastri from SPACE Nodal Center - Navrachana School, Vadodara have made a Virtual Impactor Observation (VIO) of 2010 NB2 on July 19th.

Congratulations to all of you!

Thanks to all of you for participating and putting your best effort into it! All observations and confirmations will be updated on this website soon -
http://iasc.hsutx.edu/index_files/Page786.htm

Regards,
Mila Mitra

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