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Asteroid discovery made by work experience girl



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Asteroid named Hannahblyth after Cardiff student's find

A sixth-former who went on work experience to study astronomy and discovered a new asteroid, is to have it named after her.
Hannah Blyth was using a remote-controlled telescope to stare into the night sky when she spotted 22 new asteroids more than 300m miles away.
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Cardiff student discovers two new asteroids

A stargazing schoolgirl made quite an impact on work experience when she discovered 22 new asteroids and a disintegrating comet.
Hannah Blyth, 18, had been chosen to do a summer work placement on the University of Glamorgan's Faulkes Telescope project when she made the remarkable finds.
The St John's College pupil single-handedly discovered two new asteroids, and together with astronomer Nick Howes and two of the world's leading comet and asteroid imagers, Giovanni Sostero and Ernesto Guido, discovered 20 others - not to mention the comet.
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