Indian adolescents explore asteroid near Mars transferring toward Earth

• The asteroid is slowly and gradually shifting in its orbit close to the red planet and is transferring towards Earth
• The asteroid will be officially christened only after NASA confirms its orbit.
• The girls used specialised software to examine the visuals snapped by the Pan-STARRS telescope in Hawaii

Two teenage schoolgirls in India found out an asteroid in close proximity to Mars, a space education and learning institute in India noted not too long ago.

The two women, Vaidehi Vekariya and Radhika Lakhani, equally 14 and in 10th grade, had been participants in a venture sponsored by Space India and NASA. The venture lets college students to search at photos from a telescope in Hawaii. 

Vaidehi and Radhika employed specialised program to assess the images snapped by the Pan-STARRS telescope in Hawaii, and manufactured the discovery in June, House India instructed Reuters.

The asteroid, which is named HLV2514, is little by little shifting in its orbit in the vicinity of the crimson world and is relocating towards Earth, CNN stated. It is not going to be around Earth for 1 million yrs, however, and even then will even now be 10 periods as much away as the moon.

The two ladies stay in the city of Surat in the state of Gujarat in western India.  

The pair gave it a random name for now but are seeking ahead to the possibility to achievable title it some thing else once verified, according to VICE.