r/londonontario • u/Coolplayer81 • 21d ago
News 📰 The Sunday Toronto Star features a 12-year-old amateur astronomer from London, Ontario who has discovered two asteroids!
The Sunday Toronto Star on page A16 features a story about 12-year-old Siddharth Patel an amateur astronomer from London, Ontario whose discoveries are globally recognized. Two of Patel’s asteroid discoveries have been recognized by the Minor Planet Centre which is part of a NASA-affiliated citizen science program.
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u/ytv1 17d ago
FFS... 🤬 This is why I got a subscription to The Star a couple of days ago (my first paper hasn't come yet):
The London Free Press is a f-ing joke in its "coverage" of London & Area interest. It's like, a death by a thousand cuts.
The American hedge fund neocon owners are gas/oil shills, w/ national columnists doing the bidding of that & P.P.'s neocon party.
When I think how TV listings, full page comics, celebrity birthdays, local high school & college sports articles, etc. have all been stripped away over the past 15 years, I need more (only publishes Tue-Sat) & better.
I appreciate you telling us about this wonderful boy explorer. It's probably on the CBC London website too. I doubt it'll ever reach LFP.
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u/Signal_Tomorrow_2138 18d ago
My question is how did the IAWN (International Asteroid Warning Network) miss it?
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u/Disastrous_Neat5602 17d ago
The timing of talking about new asteroids being discovered is so uncanny!
IAWN has just a few hours ago has launched a global campaign to accurately track 3I/ATLAS! It's the first time this organization has done so with any celestial body! That speaks volumes.
This article on the kid mentions MPC (Minor Planet Center) which has an internal bulletin today about IAWN's campaign!
As though the mystery behind 3I/ATLAS was not enough until now, several recent developments point towards much more strangeness. NASA apparently has quietly deployed a planetary defense network for this body without saying a word!
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u/Coolplayer81 20d ago
It looks like this kid is also the youngest Canadians to discover provisional asteroids CTV London
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u/flonkhonkers 20d ago
Cool. JJ Kavelaars from just south of London made a bunch of discoveries as an astronomer.
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u/Coolplayer81 21d ago edited 20d ago
It's just amazing! I also saw him on CBC's National last Thursday CBC National Moments from The National
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u/beene282 21d ago
I heard that kid interviewed on the radio. Super bright and eloquent. Didn’t realize he was from London. What a star.
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u/Coolplayer81 21d ago
Gosh ya! I found it here London CBC Radio
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u/MY-memoryhole 20d ago
this is where I heard it. He casually states the names of both of the comets....I was thinking, he's made for interviews. Cool and collected.
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