GROWTH–India Telescope
- Recently GROWTH–India Telescope captured a 116-meter, building-sized asteroid during its closest approach to
- The telescope was launched under GROWTH–India Project.
- GROWTH stands for Global Relay of Observatories Watching Transients
About GROWTH–India Telescope:
- It is India’s first fully robotic optical research telescope
- Objective – To observe explosive transients and variable sources, including near-Earth asteroids.
- It is located at the Indian Astronomical Observatory site at Hanle, Ladakh.
