India’s first fully robotic ‘GROWTH-India’ telescope captures building-sized asteroid – Times of India
The GROWTH-India telescope, stationed at the Indian Astronomical Observatory site at Hanle, Ladakh, caught the building-sized asteroid on its closest approach to Earth. A 0.7m wide-field telescope set up in Ladakh as a joint partnership between IIA and IIT Bombay has tracked the rapid motion of the asteroid as it zipped across the sky at…