High School Sophomores Discover Asteroid

Several readers sent us the story of three high school sophomores in Racine, Wisconsin who were just notified that a celestial body they had discovered during a science project has been verified as an asteroid. The students at Racine's Prairie School will be given the opportunity to name the asteroid in about four years. They used a telescope in New Mexico, belonging to a college in Michigan, that they controlled over the Net.

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So, I wonder

[skulgnome]

Are they going to get expelled for this? I mean, being visible on the Internet, factually representing your school, that's got to be tantamount to insubordination. Children these days need to be taught the value of respecting authority!

Come on, at least give them a few years' detention. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time, is what I always say! Young miscreants such as these cannot be permitted to go unpunished!