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Article: ADVANCES IN ASTRONOMY: ; Celestial find earns W.Va. teen a White House visit; Lucas Bolyard discovered neutron star in Green Bank data
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- October 12, 2009
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Lucas Bolyard of Lost Creek, the West Virginia high school
student who used data from the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope
to discover a strange new neutron star earlier this year, was a
guest of honor at a White House star-gazing party with President and
Obama last week.
Bolyard, a sophomore at South Harrison High School, and 15-year-
old Caroline Moore of Warwick, N.Y., stood with the president and
first lady Michelle Obama at the start of a star-gazing event
involving Washington, D.C.-area middle school students.
Also attending the event were astronauts Buzz Aldrin, pilot of
the Apollo 11 lunar mission and the second man to walk on the moon,
and Sally Ride, the Challenger space ...