The Bulgarians, who spotted three new asteroids last week, received acknowledgement from the Harvard University centre for small objects in the Solar system for their discovery on Tuesday, Darik News reported.

The astronomy and physics department of the Sofia University confirmed the news.

The three asteroids are located in the main asteroid belt of the Capricornus constellation and are named 2007 PN28, 2007 PQ2 and 2007 QD2. They hover between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Their orbital periods are respectively 4.7, 3.6 and 5.4 years.

The objects were discovered by E. Mihaylova, Ch. Kaldiev, Filip Fratev and Yavor Shopov.

This constellation is one of the oldest to have been identified, possibly the oldest, despite its dimness. Since it falls in an area of the sky known as the sea, it became considered a sea-goat. Depictions of a goat or goat-fish have been found on Babylonian tablets dating back three thousand years. The constellation may owe its antiquity to the fact that at that time, the northern hemisphere's Winter Solstice occurred while the sun was in Capricorn.

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