-NSF: High school students discover distant asteroid using NSF telescope and education program.

M2 Presswire | November 23, 1998 | Copyright

M2 PRESSWIRE-23 November 1998-NSF: High school students discover distant asteroid using NSF telescope and education program (C)1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:201198 High school students have discovered a previously unidentified celestial object in the Kuiper Belt using images from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) 4-meter Blanco Telescope in Chile. Heather McCurdy, Miriam Gustafson and George Peterson of Northfield Mount Hermon School in Northfield, Massachusetts, one of six Asteroid Search Teams at the school participating in NSF's innovative Hands-On Universe ...

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