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NASA Names Two Asteroids after Arab Israeli Student Who Discovered Them


(Technion-Israel Institute of Technology) Two new asteroids discovered by Technion student Aseel Nama of the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering will be named after her. She was the only Israeli among 116 teams worldwide that participated in NASA's asteroid-hunting campaign. "I got a set of photos and videos from NASA to search for new asteroids. I called my "team" ANI (Aseel Nama Israel) and the asteroids I discovered will be called ANI1801 and ANI2001," she said.
2021-04-14 00:00:00
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