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Indians Who Have Planets Named After Them

by Bhupesh Bansal
Mar 18, 2016
in Facts
Reading Time: 3 mins read
Indians Who Have Planets Named After Them

Indians have always shown the world their brilliance and have been awarded for that as well. . But, getting a planet named after their name isn’t a small thing. There are many Indians Who Have Planets Named After Them. Here’s a list who made India and Indians Proud of them.

1. Viswanathan Anand

The chess titan is honored with a main belt minor planet between the orbits of planets Mars and Jupiter, Vishyanand.
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2. Madhav Pathak

After he found that his uncle could not easily write in the system of six raised dots,Braille Madhav decided to change it. He modified the system and was honored. (12509 Pathak)
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3. Akshat Singhal

He developed a system to automatically categorize documents and find the relation between them. (12599 Singhal)
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4. Hetal Vaishnav

(Planet 25636) Hetal worked hard to innovate a new material for packing which was multilayered and metallised plastic
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5. Debarghya Sarkar

(25630 Sarkar) Debarghya Sarkar and Anish Mukherjee both classmates, noticed the large scale bottle tampering rampant in India at the age of 16 and the idea of auto disposable syringes.
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6. Anish Mukherjee

Anish Mukherjee and Debarghya Sarkar noticed the large scale bottle tampering rampant in India at the age of 16 and idea of auto disposable syringes. (25629 Mukherjee)
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7. Vishnu Jayaprakash

He explained a microbial fuel cell that runs on cow dung and inexpensive graphite electrodes in 2010 when he was in class XII. He has a minor planet named after him (25620 Jayaprakash).
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8. Sainudeen Pattazhy

Nasa named a minor planet 5178 No CD4 after him. He’s a Kerala zoölogy professor and has a great contribution in 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.

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9. Hamsa Padmanabhan

The planet (21575 Hamsa) is named after her when she was just at the age of 16.
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They are surely making India Proud. Do not forget to share Indians Who Have Planets Named After Them & let us know your views about the article, Please write in the comments section below.

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