Age 22 of Albany, NY - Lucy D. Crespo Da Silva '00 fell from the window of her 14th floor Westgate room in an apparent suicide.
Da Silva was a senior at MIT, majoring in Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. She had planned to enter graduate school at MIT in January.
She was a longtime player on the women's varsity ice hockey team.
96747 Crespodasilva is a main-belt asteroid she discovered, which was named for her posthumously. While making observations, at the Wallace Astrophysical Observatory, August 16, 1999, she sighted this new asteroid.
Age 22 of Albany, NY - Lucy D. Crespo Da Silva '00 fell from the window of her 14th floor Westgate room in an apparent suicide.
Da Silva was a senior at MIT, majoring in Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. She had planned to enter graduate school at MIT in January.
She was a longtime player on the women's varsity ice hockey team.
96747 Crespodasilva is a main-belt asteroid she discovered, which was named for her posthumously. While making observations, at the Wallace Astrophysical Observatory, August 16, 1999, she sighted this new asteroid.
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