Planets Named After INDIAN Students Name

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Two students from Kolkata have been bestowed with the rare honour of having minor planets named after them. The two planets — minor planet 2000 AH52 ( citation number 25629) and minor planet 2000 AT53 9 citation number (25630) — would, henceforth, be known as ‘Mukherjee’ and ‘Sarkar’, after Anish Mukherjee and Debarghya Sarkar, two students who passed the higher secondary examinations from the school this year.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Lincoln Laboratory have conferred the honour upon the duo after the students won the second grand award in the 2009 electrical and mechanical engineering fair organised by Intel in Neveda, USA.
For Mukherjee, who is pursuing engineering at Jadavpur University, and Sarkar, who has joined Indian Institute of Science Education and Research — both alumni of South Point High School — the news came as a welcome surprise. “When we started working for this technology in 2008, we never imagined that planets would be named after us,” said Sarkar. The planets were discovered on January 4, 2000 by Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro under its linear programme.

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