Sterling Teachers Travel to Mexico to Record Data for NASA

  • KENDRA MATKINS of Sterling, left, and a teammate set up to take readings of the orbit of the Palemele asteroid and Shawn moon from a beach at the north end of San Felipe, Baja California.
    KENDRA MATKINS of Sterling, left, and a teammate set up to take readings of the orbit of the Palemele asteroid and Shawn moon from a beach at the north end of San Felipe, Baja California.
  • JASON MATKINS, right, and his teammate from Oregon pose for a photo in San Felipe.
    JASON MATKINS, right, and his teammate from Oregon pose for a photo in San Felipe.
Jason and Kendra Matkins of Sterling joined 45 teams of scientists in San Felipe, Mexico, to pinpoint the exact orbit of the Palemele asteroid and Shawn moon around the earth and their direction of travel, which is the purpose of the Lucy Mission. San Felipe Municipality, Baja California, is a coastal region which is about 250 miles wide. On this trip, the Matkins’ teams carried GPS, satellite…

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