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Old 16-January-2008, 03:52 PM
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Default High School...2008 AZ28

Bravo to Sophomores at Racine's Prairie School...
High School Students Discover Asteroid

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Racine, Wis.-- Three high school students from Wisconsin were notified on Monday that a celestial body they discovered during a science project had been verified as an asteroid.

The students will be able to name the asteroid, temporarily identified as "2008 AZ28," in about four years, according to the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass., the international authority on known objects in the solar system.
It may be easier these days for high schoolers to take advantage of the technology to do this.
But; the fact that they need the knowledge and scientific disciplines to verify and file the discovery keeps the accomplishment there.
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Awesome! Yet another reason for me to envy someone else's high school experiences.
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