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CHENNAI: Here’s a question for the nerds...
what do Roger Federer, Jesse Owens, Arsene
Wenger, Donald Bradman and India’s
Viswanathan Anand have in common?
Well, apart from all of them being connected to
some sport, they all have minor planets named
after them. The former World Chess Champion
joined this unique club when a minor planet
(4538), located roughly between the orbits of
Mars and Jupiter, was named after him.
The newly-named minor planet, (4538
Vishyanand), was discovered by Kenzo Suzuki of
Toyota, Japan, on October 10, 1988.
A staff members of Minor Planet Center, Michael
Rudenko, was invited to name the object as it
remained unnamed for more than 10 years. “The
idea of naming a minor planet for Anand was
entirely my own,” Rudenko told Express
exclusively. “After careful consideration I
selected him because in addition to being a great
chess player he is also a gentlemen and
astronomy enthusiast,” Rudenko said.
 
I hope they used a shortened name, something like Viswa or no one will ever remember how to say it
 
Just a question apart from Kalpana Chawla and Anand is there any other indian who has a celestial body named after him.
 
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Man is a legend
 
Just a question apart from Kalpana Chawla and Anand is there any other indian who has a celestial body named after him.

Ghritachi, Menaka, Rambha, Purvachitti, Swayamprabha, Urvashi, Misrakeshi, Dandagauri, Varuthini, Gopali, Sahajanya, Kumbhayoni, Prajagara, Chitrasena, Chitralekha, Saha and Madhuraswana :D

I am a great fan of Celestial Bodies :enjoy:

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I hope they used a shortened name, something like Viswa or no one will ever remember how to say it

But Vishwa means Earth. This will confuse humans 500 years from now, they will end up on teh wrong planet!!

Just a question apart from Kalpana Chawla and Anand is there any other indian who has a celestial body named after him.

People say my abs are out of this world, so I guess my boy is celestial.
 
Just a question apart from Kalpana Chawla and Anand is there any other indian who has a celestial body named after him.


Not as popular as Vishy, but nice contributions.

9 Indians Who Have Planets Named After Them

Viswanathan Anand just had a planet named after him. The Chess Grandmaster, once nicknamed the “Lightning Kid”, famous for his rapid tactical calculations has been immortalized with planet Vishyanand, the main asteroid beltminor planet between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

But Indians are no strangers to having planetary bodies named after them – these whiz kids have had their own planets for a while now.

Hamsa Padmanabhan
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At 16, Hamsa Padmanabhan had a minor planet 21575 named 'Hamsa', after her. She was then a second-year B.Sc student of Fergusson College, when she made a presentation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Lincoln lab for the Intel International Science and Engineering Fir (ISEF) in 2006. Today at 21, she is doing her post graduation in Physics from Pune University, after which she plans to do her doctoral research in theoretical physics.

Sainudeen Pattazhy
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NASA named a minor planet (5178 No CD4) after Kerala zoology professor Sainudeen Pattazhy for his environmental research and campaigns, including red rain, health hazard of mobile phone towers, biological control of mosquitoes and the eco-biology of trees of religious importance.

Vishnu Jayaprakash
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In 2010, Vishnu Jayaprakash, then a Chennai Class XII student of Chettinad Vidyashram demonstrated a microbial fuel cell that runs on cow dung and inexpensive graphite electrodes. The minor planet named after him is called 25620 Jayaprakash. He aimed to reduce power costs for India’s 700,000 villages. Today, he has done extensive research on renewable energy technologies, and is now focussing on Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC) technology.

Anish Mukherjee
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When Anish Mukherjee and Debarghya Sarkar were only 16 years old, they noticed the large scale bottle tampering rampant in India. They took the idea of autodisposable syringes—which, once used, cannot be used again—and implemented that for one-time use bottle cap. Their design enabled customers to know if the the bottle had been tampered with. For this, planet 2000 AH52 he was renamed 25629 Mukherjee.

Debarghya Sarkar
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In 2010, Sarkar and his school classmate Anish Mukherjee worked on an innovative design that would make bottle-caps completely tamper proof. For his contribution to electrical and mechanical engineering, 25630 Sarkar (previously 2000 AT53) is named after him. Debarghya Sarkar is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Southern California. He plans to take his interest in bottle cap design towards a larger goal - design, fabrication and integration of devices that modulate photons and electrons.

Hetal Vaishnav
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When class X student Hetal Vaishnav saw that ragpickers were not picking up waste packets made up of multilayer plastic, she found that recycling companies avoided buying multilayer film plastic waste from them as it cannot be reused or recycled. Hetal then spent months to innovate upon a process to deliver an innovative material that is “sustainable to water, has good nail- and screw-holding capacity, and has features that are better than MDF (Medium-density fibreboard) and plywood.”. This let her use multilayered and metallised plastic used for packaging wafers and chewing tobacco. "I got a certificate from Lincoln Lab a few days ago," Hetal said on telephone from Rajkot. Planet 25636 Vaishnav was named for her contribution to the environment.

Akshat Singhal
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After Akshat found how annoying it was to index documents in a computer, he developed a system to automatically categorise documents, and also find relations between them, using artificial intelligence. The planet named after him, 12599 Singhal, is in the same region of planets that has 8749 Beatles, 2001 Einstein and 7000 Curie.

Madhav Pathak
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Madhav Pathak has changed the conventional Braille slate, making writing easier for the visually impaired. After Madhav Pathak found that his uncle could not easily write in Braille, the system of six raised dots, he decided to change it. Braille has a steep learning curve: Blind children have to memorise more than 300 combinations of dots, since they need one set of combinations for reading, and another set for writing! Madhav has modified the Braille slate (used for writing the language), which lets students easily read and write the language. For this, he has 12509 Pathak named after him.

Viswanathan Anand


Named Vishyanand, the main belt minor planet is between the orbits of planets Mars and Jupiter. The planet was discovered in 1988 by Kenzo Suzuki in Toyota, Japan and was nameless until now. A minor planet is usually named after the person who discovered it but if it remains nameless, then it’s in the hands of the committee members to name it. Hence Micahel Rudenko, a minor planet committee member and an ardent fan of Viswanathan Anand’s knack for chess decided to name the planet ‘Vishyanand’. He is only the third chess player in the world after Alexander Alekhine and Anatoly Karpov to be honored in this fashion.
 
Not as popular as Vishy, but nice contributions.

9 Indians Who Have Planets Named After Them

Viswanathan Anand just had a planet named after him. The Chess Grandmaster, once nicknamed the “Lightning Kid”, famous for his rapid tactical calculations has been immortalized with planet Vishyanand, the main asteroid beltminor planet between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

But Indians are no strangers to having planetary bodies named after them – these whiz kids have had their own planets for a while now.

Hamsa Padmanabhan
getimage-6_1428052516.jpg


At 16, Hamsa Padmanabhan had a minor planet 21575 named 'Hamsa', after her. She was then a second-year B.Sc student of Fergusson College, when she made a presentation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Lincoln lab for the Intel International Science and Engineering Fir (ISEF) in 2006. Today at 21, she is doing her post graduation in Physics from Pune University, after which she plans to do her doctoral research in theoretical physics.

Sainudeen Pattazhy
sainudeen-pattazhy-6_1428052584.jpg


NASA named a minor planet (5178 No CD4) after Kerala zoology professor Sainudeen Pattazhy for his environmental research and campaigns, including red rain, health hazard of mobile phone towers, biological control of mosquitoes and the eco-biology of trees of religious importance.

Vishnu Jayaprakash
treehugger-6-vishnu_1428052630.jpg


In 2010, Vishnu Jayaprakash, then a Chennai Class XII student of Chettinad Vidyashram demonstrated a microbial fuel cell that runs on cow dung and inexpensive graphite electrodes. The minor planet named after him is called 25620 Jayaprakash. He aimed to reduce power costs for India’s 700,000 villages. Today, he has done extensive research on renewable energy technologies, and is now focussing on Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC) technology.

Anish Mukherjee
anish_1428052647.jpg


When Anish Mukherjee and Debarghya Sarkar were only 16 years old, they noticed the large scale bottle tampering rampant in India. They took the idea of autodisposable syringes—which, once used, cannot be used again—and implemented that for one-time use bottle cap. Their design enabled customers to know if the the bottle had been tampered with. For this, planet 2000 AH52 he was renamed 25629 Mukherjee.

Debarghya Sarkar
sarkar-intell-6_1428052669.jpg


In 2010, Sarkar and his school classmate Anish Mukherjee worked on an innovative design that would make bottle-caps completely tamper proof. For his contribution to electrical and mechanical engineering, 25630 Sarkar (previously 2000 AT53) is named after him. Debarghya Sarkar is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Southern California. He plans to take his interest in bottle cap design towards a larger goal - design, fabrication and integration of devices that modulate photons and electrons.

Hetal Vaishnav
hetal_1428052735_1428052748.jpg


When class X student Hetal Vaishnav saw that ragpickers were not picking up waste packets made up of multilayer plastic, she found that recycling companies avoided buying multilayer film plastic waste from them as it cannot be reused or recycled. Hetal then spent months to innovate upon a process to deliver an innovative material that is “sustainable to water, has good nail- and screw-holding capacity, and has features that are better than MDF (Medium-density fibreboard) and plywood.”. This let her use multilayered and metallised plastic used for packaging wafers and chewing tobacco. "I got a certificate from Lincoln Lab a few days ago," Hetal said on telephone from Rajkot. Planet 25636 Vaishnav was named for her contribution to the environment.

Akshat Singhal
akshat-6_1428052779.jpg


After Akshat found how annoying it was to index documents in a computer, he developed a system to automatically categorise documents, and also find relations between them, using artificial intelligence. The planet named after him, 12599 Singhal, is in the same region of planets that has 8749 Beatles, 2001 Einstein and 7000 Curie.

Madhav Pathak
madhav-6_1428052832.jpg


Madhav Pathak has changed the conventional Braille slate, making writing easier for the visually impaired. After Madhav Pathak found that his uncle could not easily write in Braille, the system of six raised dots, he decided to change it. Braille has a steep learning curve: Blind children have to memorise more than 300 combinations of dots, since they need one set of combinations for reading, and another set for writing! Madhav has modified the Braille slate (used for writing the language), which lets students easily read and write the language. For this, he has 12509 Pathak named after him.

Viswanathan Anand


Named Vishyanand, the main belt minor planet is between the orbits of planets Mars and Jupiter. The planet was discovered in 1988 by Kenzo Suzuki in Toyota, Japan and was nameless until now. A minor planet is usually named after the person who discovered it but if it remains nameless, then it’s in the hands of the committee members to name it. Hence Micahel Rudenko, a minor planet committee member and an ardent fan of Viswanathan Anand’s knack for chess decided to name the planet ‘Vishyanand’. He is only the third chess player in the world after Alexander Alekhine and Anatoly Karpov to be honored in this fashion.

It interesting that people from ALL parts of India is represented here. From the North to the south, from the east to the west. Goes to show, no one can claim intellectual superiority.
 
to both woods, if you cant come up with an original name, how can we expect original movies
 
Man is a legend

Not only Legend,He's one of the most prominent Indian figure on fighting spirit.while everybody is tagging Chess a "Young men's game",Only Anand and Topalov(Kramanik is just 40 now) are still one of the top 10 ranked players who has age 40+.
 
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