Audio scale up student’s book Course 3 Ministry of Higher and Secondary Specialized Education of the Republic of Uzbekistan State University of World Languages

New Minor Planet
“Samarkand”
Two Uzbek astronomers were working on a clear night 
in October 2007 at Maidanak Observatory when they 
suddenly pored over 
celestial 
images. After observing 
the images, they noticed a star-like object moving 
along the orbital path. They tracked the object and
decided to send the 
preliminary (1)_
Minor Planet Center (MPC), which was run by the 
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Harvard 
College Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 
They received the confirmation about the object not 
being previously documented in MPC catalogue. The 
Center assigned the object a 
provisional 
designation, 
and the real work began. It took Bahodir Hafizov, the 
Uzbek astronomer at Maidanak, almost two years 
to plot the daily trajectory and define the 
precise
coordinates of the object until the Center was satisfied 
that it was indeed a new minor planet, or small 
solar system body. The planet was enrolled in MPC 
catalogue and named Samarkand, after the city that 
was (2)______________ in astronomy.
Maidanak Observatory works in (3)______________
and other international institutions. The new small
and match them with their antonyms 1-6
solar system body was discovered with the help of the 
most modern and highly-sensitive equipment that is the 
best in the region and given to Ulugbek Astronomical 
Institute by the association o f Korean Universities. 
During the Soviet period Maidanak was a military 
satellite ranging station and it was impossible to carry 
out this kind of International Cooperation in the field 
of astronomy.
Nowadays Ulugbek Astronomical Institute (UBAI) is 
taking an active part in an International projects like
(4)______________ , 
monitoring 
of the brightness
of quasars, observing young stars outside our solar 
system and many others. That’s because the Maidanak
observatory has (5)______________ and experienced
scientists as well.
Obviously, UBAI is doing more than just discovering 
new minor planets. Thanks to the hard work o f a group
of scholars and (6)_____________ o f astronomers,
Maidanak has turned into a world-class observatory 
that helps to solve some o f the universe’s most 
complex 
puzzles.

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