This goes out to all the people who scour strange sites on the internet to solve mysteries: An Indian programmer helped NASA find India's lost Vikram moon lander in his spare time. @kchangnyt emailed with @ramanean about his #chandrayaan2 discovery:https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/02/science/india-moon-mission-vikram-lander-found.html …
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Shouldn't the NYT headline be: Indian Amateur finds India's Vikram Moon Lander Crash Site, with NASA's Help and not the other way around? "Mr. Shanmuga reported what he had found to NASA ...... who confirmed his finding"
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Shan did fantastic detective work locating a piece of the debris. But he also couldn't tell for certain what it was. The LRO camera people took that crucial clue and found the impact site, which was 750 meters away.
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Let's say your own child found a white dot from 238,900 miles away, emailed
@NASA, NASA found the Lander within 0.5 miles based on that dot, and sent your child a congrats letter. Would you say she found the Lander with help from NASA, or NASA found the Lander with her help?
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Maybe it's just me, but I'd say NASA located the crash site with her help and not have a problem with that.
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Here is one from Washington Post's
@jslaternyc https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/indian-amateur-helps-nasa-reveal-fate-of-failed-moon-mission/2019/12/03/4953b6fa-1592-11ea-bf81-ebe89f477d1e_story.html …pic.twitter.com/lMuX6MqKtr
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WaPo headline still says he helped, not that he found. That's a fine headline too.
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