Located on the Harvard Minor Planet Center - gather for the International Astronomical Union and NASA data including of asteroids - asteroid discovery was confirmed by high school students in Sierpc. The new object is called. MBA, or "main belt body" (called main asteroid belt.) Secondary school students found the asteroid on June 18, but the final confirmation of the discovery had to wait two weeks. Their success has informed Dr Patrick Miller, an employee of Hardin-Simmons University in Texas and director of the "International Astronomical Search Collaboration" (IASC). The newly discovered body received the designation 2010 MN2.
City Middle School Students to them. Nicolaus Copernicus in Sierpc, working under the supervision of a teacher of physics and astronomy Joseph Urbanski, have suffered in recent days is also another success. A team composed of Kopycińska Alexander, Michael Lewandowski, Hubert Przygucki, Krzysztof Urbanski, Piotr Woznicki and managed to remove from the list of "killers", that is potentially threatening asteroid earth asteroid NEO 2010 MF1.
"With the review done by the students, we are sure that this object will never hit the Earth '- explains dr. Lech Mankiewicz, director of the Center for Theoretical Physics in Warsaw and a Polish co-ordinators of the project Hands-On Universe - Europe, under which schools are involved in companies IASC.
This is not the first achievements of students from Sierpc, where in addition to high school students in a small solar system bodies are looking at the High School students. Maj. Henryk Sucharski (including confirmation of two NEO - 2009SK and 2009UD19).
successes in campaigns IASC ("NEO Confirmation Campaign" and "International Asteroid Search Campaign") are also teams from other Polish towns - in the last few years they managed to discover a few dozen orbits of asteroids and confirm the next dozen objects.
"When we ended the previous campaign, Dr. Miller asked whether any of the teams would not want to continue to work at the beginning of the holiday. We agreed and now we know that it was worth it" - said Joseph Urbanski.
"My concern is only that engage students and Mr. Urbanski - topped with such success - may go unnoticed in the face of the finals campaign. It is a pity, because this knowledge is priceless not only for researchers, but in fact for all of us. Quietly, however, count on the electoral silence "- adds Mankiewicz.
Draft IASC founded in cooperation with institutions from the United States and the European Union: Hardin-Simmons University, Lawrence Hall of Science (University of California, Berkeley), Astronomical Research Institute , Global Hands-On Universe Association (Portugal), the Sierra Stars Observatory Network and Astrometric (Austria).
Polish schools participate in the IASC program through Hands-On Universe - Europe, within which are provided with modern teaching tools to support science teaching - such as astronomical observations webkamerkowych program or a program that uses remote-controlled telescopes and radio telescopes.
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