Erika Alden DeBenedictis

Erika Alden DeBenedictis (born 1992) is an American computer scientist. DeBenedictis attended Saint Pius X High School in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

In 2007 her computer science project won second prize in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair."[1]

In 2000 a main belt asteroid was named after her. The asteroid, 23131 Debenedictis was discovered on 5 January 2000 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team in Socorro.

In 2008, she further became connected to asteroids when she attended the Summer Science Program, which teaches astronomy through a curriculum based on asteroid observations and orbital calculations.[2] At the program in Socorro, NM, just a short distance from where the asteroid was discovered, she had the opportunity to observe her namesake.[3]

She enrolled at the California Institute of Technology in 2010.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser". NASA. Retrieved 2010-03-17.
  2. ↑ Renteria, Roger (July 18, 2008). "A Day in the Life of SSP Students, July 18, 2008". New Mexico Tech.
  3. ↑ http://faculty.physics.tamu.edu/krisciunas/erika.html
  4. ↑ "Glamour's 20 Amazing Young Women: Erika DeBenedictis, Winner of Intel’s Science Talent Search". Glamor. 22 November 2010.
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