Two teenage girls from India have discovered an Earth-bound asteroid by poring through images from a University of Hawaii telescope, an Indian space education institute said on Monday.

The asteroid is presently near Mars and its orbit is expected to cross that of Earth in about one million years' time, said SPACE India, a private institute where the two 14-year-old girls received training.

"I look forward to... when we will get a chance to name the asteroid," said Vaidehi Vekariya, who added that she wants to become an astronaut when she is older.

Radhika Lakhani, the other student, said she was working hard on her education. "I don't even have a TV at home, so that I can concentrate on my studies."

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It might be a million years away but this is a shot over the bow for NASA. What the fuck are you guys doing over there? I read all of this scientific nonsense over your new telescope balloon, meanwhile these two kids are discovering the plot for Armageddon 2 right under your nose! Yeah your weather balloon is freakin sweet, and I’m sure that you’re having a hard time culling the massive boner that science has for it, but unless it shoots missiles at asteroids it has officially lost my interest.

I’ve got nothing against these kids, they sound super smart, devoted, and space savvy, all things I would like from future NASA geniuses. They’re spending their free time scouring photos of a zillion years in the future, giving up TV to focus on their academics. Where are those guys for you NASA? Isn’t the super nerd supposed to be your specialty? I want a department of Harvard, Yale and MIT brainiacs locked in a closet, no idea what TV is, no idea what’s going on in the real world, but so fucking clued into space world. There’s no reason for them to ever see the sun unless of course the sun is threatening the earth’s existence; in that case I don’t want them to stop looking at the sun. Honestly, just clone these two kids. You can teach space science, you can provide vitamin D pills, but you can’t teach this kind of passion.