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Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Main Belt Asteroid Discoveries!!

Main Belt Asteroid Discoveries!!

There are Main Belt asteroid discoveries to report:  The first has already been reported but there are an additional three:

2010 PO24
Discovered August 6th
A.Singh & S. Wadhwa
Ryan International School, Rohini

2010 PL26
Discovered August 6th
A.Singh & S. Wadhwa
Ryan International School, Rohini

2010 PU57
Discovered August 8th
V. Narang, T. Paranjape, & P. Srivastava
SPACE 2, Delhi

2010 PV57
Discovered August 8th
V. Narang, T. Paranjape, & P. Srivastava
SPACE 2, Delhi

A fifth asteroid was discovered on August 6th by IASC Astronomer Tomas Vorobjov (England).  This was 2010 PY56.  Unfortunately the school that was assigned this image set to analyze did not download and look at the set using Astrometrica.

Congratulations to A. Singh & S. Wadhwa for their two discoveries, and to V. Narang, T. Paranjape, & P. Srivastava for their two!!

Possible Additional Discoveries

It is still possible that some of the MPC reports from the schools that were submitted in the past week contain new Main Belt asteroid discoveries.  IASC is looking at a number of them, and will report back immediately when the Minor Planet Center finalizes its reports.

Happy Hunting!!

1 comment:

  1. Congratulations to all the participants!!!!!

    We should celebrate with the VIO and FOUR discoveries. I am proud to be an Indian.

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