17092 Sharanya
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17092 Sharanya is a minor planet or asteroid discovered by the LINEAR programme of MIT Lincoln Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and named by researchers there for a young girl, S. Sharanya, from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India, a student at Avila Convent in that town, in recognition for reaching the finals of the 2003 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair [1] [2] [3].
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