Comet Hunter from Poland. He was 12 years old when he got into the Guinness Book of Records
As we can read on the website of the Guinness Book of Records, Rafai Berros became interested in astronomy already in kindergarten.
His passion deepened especially when the COVID-19 pandemic came, and in May 2020 he studied remotely from home. He was taught to “hunt” comets by his uncle, who is also the discoverer of these celestial bodies.
Guinness record
Rafał began searching for comets as part of NASA’s Sungrazer project – a project that allows anyone to access space images taken by the Sun and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO).
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When the teen reported the discovery of the object, he was 99% sure he was guilty. – I was looking forward to confirmation of my first discovery. the teen said, as reported by kids.guinnessworldrecords.com, when it was confirmed. The comet was named SOHO-4094.
Rifai’s age at that time was 12 years and 199 days. He entered the book as the youngest discoverer of comets.
During my adventure with the project, I didn’t expect to be in the Guinness Book of Records. My goal was to find a culprit, not to break a record, but to be honored.”
Comets discovered by Raffaei Beros
Raphael is 14 years old today. He has not rested on his laurels and is still scouring the universe in search of comets.
Discovered so far 11 of them:
SOHO-4094 11/13/2020 (Kreutz),
SOHO-4155 2021-04-01 (MYR),
SOHO-4199 03/06/2021 (Kreutz),
SOHO-4219 06/26/2021 (Kreutz),
SOHO-4224 06/28/2021 (Kreutz),
SOHO-4227 06/29/2021 (Kreutz),
SOHO-4228 06/29/2021 (Kreutz),
SOHO-4246 07/13/2021 (Kreutz),
SOHO-4244 07/19/2021 (Kreutz),
SOHO-4262 07/25/2021 (Kreutz),
SOHO-4300 2021-10-30 (Kreutz) – Co-discovery with Masanori Uchina.
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