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Govoleo t1_j1muqfm wrote

yes it is.

discovering a new asteroid is only a matter of luck

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notenoughroomtofitmy t1_j1n6ly6 wrote

Yeah but kudos to the young kid for being clear about it instead of using it to brag like most of us would at her age.

Also, while it is true that anyone could have done it, she actually took the initiative and did it, while most kids her age haven’t done something like this. She took an interest, she went through the grind, she remained humble after the fact. That’s a kid raised well.

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rtphokie t1_j1nd4j7 wrote

She had the initiative to participate in an organized campaign combing through the data with others in a very organized fashion and continue after finding nothing in two previous campaigns

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rtphokie t1_j1nclih wrote

Same with the young man who “discovered” an exoplanet on his third day of a NASA internship.

It’s incredibly cool but really shouldn’t be read as an indicator of knowledge or skill of the discoverer.

Its luck. Right place, right time, right dataset on front on them.

They were able to follow instructions however, something not every 17 year old can do

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mcmalloy t1_j1nqnyi wrote

Yeah, but my teen self would have been ecstatic over such a find! It’s also relatively easy to catalog & analyse current supernova candidates. Although not everybody has access to a spectrograph & a decent telescope haha

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