At just 8 years of age, the Brazilian girl is known as the world's youngest astronomer, looking of asteroids as part of a NASA-affiliated program, attending international seminars and meeting with her the country's top space and science figures. Oliveira's room is filled with posters and solar system, star wars figures and miniature rockets. Nicolinha, as she is affectionately known, works on her computer studying images of the sky on 2 two large screens. With pride, Nicolinha told AFP she has already found 18 asteroids. If her finding are certified, which may take several years, Oliveira will become the youngest person in the world to officially e discover and asteroid, breaking the record of 18-years-old Italian Luigi sannino. She immediately sports points in the images that look like asteroids and often advisors her classmates when they a r not sure they have really e found any. Said Heliomarzio Rodrigues Moreira, oliveira's astronomy teacher private school in the ...