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Indian teenagers discover asteroid near Mars moving toward Earth

The asteroid, which is named HLV2514, is slowly shifting in its orbit near the red planet and is moving toward Earth

Newsroom July 31 10:30

Two teenage schoolgirls in India discovered an asteroid near Mars, a space education institute in India reported recently.

The two girls, Vaidehi Vekariya and Radhika Lakhani, both 14 and in 10th grade, were participants in a project sponsored by Space India and NASA. The project allows students to look at images from a telescope in Hawaii.

Vaidehi and Radhika used specialized software to analyze the images snapped by the Pan-STARRS telescope in Hawaii, and made the discovery in June, Space India told Reuters.

The asteroid, which is named HLV2514, is slowly shifting in its orbit near the red planet and is moving toward Earth, CNN said. It won’t be near Earth for 1 million years, however, and even then will still be 10 times as far away as the moon.

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The two girls live in the city of Surat in the state of Gujarat in western India.

The pair gave it a random name for now but are looking forward to the opportunity to possible name it something else once confirmed, according to VICE.

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