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Kritti Sharma
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Kritti Sharma, an ex-Panchkula Bhavanite presently studying her third year at IIT Bombay has made the entire nation proud. She discovered the closest ever recorded asteroid's flyby of Earth without impacting the planet! The discovery was made just hours after the flyby using the data from the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) at Caltech. Kritti is a part of the IITB wing. Caltech leads the GROWTH collaboration which stands for Global Relay of Observatories Watching Transient Happen. It is an international scientific collaborative project in astronomy studying the physics of fast-changing events in the cosmos like supernovae, neutron stars or black-hole mergers and nearearth asteroids. This group has members from India, Taiwan, UK, and the US who collectively work on finding asteroids.
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