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Wellesley Teen Among Students Who Tracked Friday's Asteroid
A live online feed was set up to track the asteroid that whizzed by close to earth last Friday.
Just when we thought there would never be a local connection to the asteroid that flew unnervingly close by earth, comes this report from the Boston Globe: a Wellesley teen was among a small group to manage a live online feed that tracked the asteroid's path.
According to the Globe story, Sam Lapides, 17, of Wellesley, was one of three students monitoring a giant telescope on Friday at Dexter and Southfield Schools in Brookline.
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The Globe report says that Lapides was among the teens who closely followed the asteroid through one of the biggest telescopes in the Boston area.
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