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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008, 07:08 AM
Several readers sent us the story of three high school sophomores in Racine, Wisconsin who were just notified that a celestial body they had discovered during a science project has been verified as an asteroid. The students at Racine's Prairie School will be given the opportunity to name the asteroid in about four years. They used a telescope in New Mexico, belonging to a college in Michigan, that they controlled over the Net.Read more of this story (http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/16/034230&from=rss) at Slashdot.
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