In the Race
Now, here, you see, it takes all the blogging I can do to keep in the same place.
If I want to get somewhere else, I must blog twice as fast as that!
You see, I'm in
the Red Queen's Race...
Wisconsin Students Out of This World
By Janet Evans
Wednesday, Jan 16 2008, 08:00 AM
Wisconsin students in the news for something cool….
High School Students Discover Asteroid
Students Receive Asteroid Naming Rights
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.
Sophomores at Racine's Prairie School, Connor Leipold, Tim Pastika and Kyle Simpson made the discovery thanks to technology provided from Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich., which is also the alma mater of the science teacher, Andrew Vanden Heuvel, school spokeswoman Susan Paprcka said.
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Asteroid 2008 AZ28
