15-Year-Old Discovered A Planet
Geo Beats
2015-06-12
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Tom Wagg, who is now 17, discovered a new planet at the age of 15 during his one week work-experience stint at Keele University in the UK.
A 15-year-old school boy has set a new bar for what an internship experience ought to be like.
Tom Wagg discovered a new planet during his one week work-experience stint at Keele University in the UK.
A news release by the university notes that Tom, "found the planet by looking at data collected by the WASP (Wide Angle Search for Planets) project, which surveys the night skies monitoring millions of stars to look for the tell-tale tiny dips (transits) caused by planets passing in front of their host star."
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A 15-year-old school boy has set a new bar for what an internship experience ought to be like.
Tom Wagg discovered a new planet during his one week work-experience stint at Keele University in the UK.
A news release by the university notes that Tom, "found the planet by looking at data collected by the WASP (Wide Angle Search for Planets) project, which surveys the night skies monitoring millions of stars to look for the tell-tale tiny dips (transits) caused by planets passing in front of their host star."
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