20002 Tillysmith
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20002 Tillysmith is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on March 10, 1991 by R. H. McNaught at Siding Spring. It is named after Tilly Smith
who saved over one hundred people by recognising the receding water and frothing bubbles of an oncoming Tsunami
during the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake
.
Asteroid belt
The asteroid belt is the region of the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter. It is occupied by numerous irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids or minor planets...
asteroid
Asteroid
Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...
discovered on March 10, 1991 by R. H. McNaught at Siding Spring. It is named after Tilly Smith
Tilly Smith
Tilly Smith is a British girl who, at the age of 10, was credited with saving nearly a hundred foreign tourists at Maikhao Beach in Thailand by warning beachgoers minutes before the arrival of the tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake....
who saved over one hundred people by recognising the receding water and frothing bubbles of an oncoming Tsunami
Tsunami
A tsunami is a series of water waves caused by the displacement of a large volume of a body of water, typically an ocean or a large lake...
during the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake
The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was an undersea megathrust earthquake that occurred at 00:58:53 UTC on Sunday, December 26, 2004, with an epicentre off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The quake itself is known by the scientific community as the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake...
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