Main Belt Asteroid Discovery
A.Singh & S.Wadhwa from SPACE club, Ryan International School, Rohini discovered the Main Belt asteroid 2010 PO24 The discovery was made on August 6th. This is the first asteroid discovery by any school participating in the All-India Asteroid Search Campaign. Congratulations.
2010 PO24 is a rare Mars-crossing asteroid. Its average distance from the Sun is 2.34 AU but it gets as close as 1.66 AU. Mars its at an average distance of 1.52 AU but varies between 1.38 AU to 1.67 AU from the Sun.
P. Jhaveri, A. Shah, & M. Shastri from Navrachana School,Vadodara (India) SPACE nodal centre, also made a virtual impactor observation (VIO) of 2010 NB2 on July 19th. A VIO is more important than even a Main Belt asteroid discovery.
More on this at this link:
Virtual Impactor Observation
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