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By N. Sridhar Indian Chess champion Viswanathan Anand has become a celestial celebrity with his name added to a minor planet referred to till now by its number 4538, thanks to a staffer at the Minor Planet Center. The Minor Planet Center only has the authority to designate new asteroid discoveries and assign numbers to those whose orbits are of ...

Why Viswanathan Anand got the honour of naming a planet in his name that too 15 years after its discovery? There’s more to his chess glory as he is also an astronomy enthusiast and above all a gentleman for the staff at the Minor Planet Center. Though a minor planet, 4538 is located in between the orbits of Mars and ...