02-24-2014 Astronomy anniversaries and new asteroids

Asteroid discoveries:

None today

Comet discoveries:

None today

Today's astronomy anniversaries:

• Discoveries:
• 1916 (98 years ago)- 25D/Neujmin is discovered by Grigory Neujmin.
• Events:
• 2011 (3 years ago)- Space Shuttle Discovery launches for the last time before being decommissioned on March 9th.
• Births:
• 1967 (47 years ago)- Brian Schmidt, an Australian astrophysicist who studied supernovae types, is born in Missoula, Montana.
• Deaths:
• None

           Coming up later today:
I honestly don't know. Probably Saturn's rings, just keep waiting.