* Astronomy

Delhi girls find asteroid

As a child her mother told her that it takes eight minutes for the sun's rays to reach the earth. This simple fact is etched in the memory of Pragya Chawla, who along with her class mate, Aprajita Aggarwal, discovered an asteroid last month.   But it is not just any asteroid that the two girls from Bal Bharati Public School, Ganga Ram Hospital Marg, discovered. The two astronomy enthusiasts have managed to find a rare Trojan asteroid. These are rare asteroids that have been pulled gravitationally by Jupiter into its orbit.
While the students discovered a new asteroid, called 2011 MV9, in June, the news that their discovery was very rare reached them on Monday evening
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