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Two college students find asteroid
Fort Worth, Texas (UPI) Mar 17, 2008 Two Texas college students discovered an asteroid while examining images of space on a computer, a report said. Tarrant County College students Ryan Gallagher and Robbyn Kindle, 40, were recommended by their former physics professor, Raymond Benge, to be part of an international program to examine images of space for asteroids, the Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram reported. "It was confirmed last week. It is official. For undergraduate students to find an asteroid is very rare. There are a lot of astronomers who've never found one," Benge said of the students' March 9 discovery. The International Astronomical Union assigned the asteroid a tentative identification of 2008 EB61, Benge said. Gallagher and Kindle both have finished undergraduate studies but decided to enroll in a science class to increase their odds of being accepted into graduate medical programs, the Star-Telegram reported. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links Asteroid and Comet Mission News, Science and Technology
SpaceDev And SEI Win International Asteroid Mission Design Contest
Poway CA (SPX) Mar 03, 2008SpaceDev has announced that along with teammate SpaceWorks Engineering, Inc. (SEI), it has won first place in The Planetary Society's Apophis Mission Design Competition. NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) were co-sponsors of this innovative competition. The sponsors received 37 mission proposals from 20 countries on 6 continents. |
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