12-year-old Canadian discovers two new asteroids in NASA program

12-year-old Canadian discovers two new asteroids in NASA program

From the balcony of his family’s downtown London, Ontario apartment, five-year-old Siddharth Patel would spend nights gazing at the sky, tracing constellations and dreaming about what lay beyond. Now 12, Patel has become one of the youngest Canadians to make a provisional discovery of not one, but two asteroids. A Cosmic Breakthrough Patel’s discoveries — cataloged as 2024 RH39 and 2024 RX69 — were confirmed this month by the Minor Planet Center…