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High School Students Discover Asteroid

Students Receive Asteroid Naming Rights

RACINE, Wis. -- Three high school students from Wisconsin were notified on Monday that a celestial body they discovered during a science project had been verified as an asteroid.

The students will be able to name the asteroid, temporarily identified as "2008 AZ28," in about four years, according to the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass., the international authority on known objects in the solar system.

Sophomores at Racine's Prairie School, Connor Leipold, Tim Pastika and Kyle Simpson made the discovery thanks to technology provided from Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich., which is also the alma mater of the science teacher, Andrew Vanden Heuvel, school spokeswoman Susan Paprcka said.

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Asteroid 2008 AZ28