This asteroid was just named in honor of an Indian working at NASA
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In yet another proud moment for India, Rutu Parekh, a planetary geologist from Gujarat, and three other scientists were honored for their achievements. Rutu Parekh had an an asteroid named after her - Asteroid 2000HD73 is has been renamed as “Rutu Parekh”, Times of India reported.Parekh had completed her BSC from St. Xavier's College in Biochemistry and Chemistry. She did her M.Sc. from Canter for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT University) in Geomatics and Remote Sensing. Furthermore, she completed her M.Sc. - Earth Science Thesis focusing on Martian volcanism and surface geomorphology from the University of Bristol, United Kingdom. And now she is working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a post-doctoral researcher at NASA (USA). Kumar Venkatramani, another scienti...