Greetings from the International Astronomical Search Collaboration
Image Sets Available
Image sets from July 7-11 are available and ready to analyze in the school folders. Your students should analyze their sets within 48 hours, especially for near-Earth object (NEO) confirmations and Main Belt asteroid (MBA) discoveries.
NEO Confirmation
Congratulations to P. Sharma, S. Devgun, and S. Dhawan from Astronomica in Delhi. On July 5th they made the NEO confirmation of 2010 NG. This is an Apollo-class NEO which crosses Earth's orbit and comes within 2.2 million kilometers of Earth.
A confirmation is the second observation of a recently-discovered NEO. This important second observation confirms the existence of NEO and further refines its orbit calculation.
Check your folders. Analyze your image sets. There are discoveries, confirmations, and observations just waiting for your students.
Happy Hunting!!
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