Vishy Anand is now a planet

Viswanathan Anand, the Chess Grand Master of India now has a planet named after him, called,'4538 Vishyanand'. The newly named planet is a minor planet which was discovered by Kenzo Suzuki of Japan in Toyota Observatory in 1988 but was unnamed until now. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) put it on it's website on April 1, but not as an April fool's joke.

On April 1, Michael Rudenko, a member of Minor Planet Centre named the planed after Viswanathan Anand, saying, "After careful consideration I selected him because in addition to being a great chess player he is also a gentlemen and astronomy enthusiast."

Top 5 things you must know:

• A minor planet is an astronomical object which is neither a planet nor a comet. They are the dwarf planets which have been archived by the Minor Planet Centre

• The first minor planet was discovered in 1801 which is called 'Ceres'

• The minor planet named after Viswanathan Anand is '4528 Vishyanand', which is a minor planet between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter

• Viswanathan Anand is the third chess player to have a minor planet named after him, after Alexandar Alekhine and Anatoly Karpov

• Sir Donald Bradman, Roger Federer, Jesse Owens and Arsene Wenger also have a minor planet named after them.

Source : http://indiatoday.intoday.in/education/story/4538-vishyanand/1/428278.html

and wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(4538)_Vishyanand

vishy anand retires from chess and becomes a planet

Sarcastic enough :P well he is third after Alexandar Alekhine and Anatoly Karpov, so deal with it ^^

We cant breathe on Sun either, does not mean its useless, right?

What about Planet Ivanchuk?

I doubt i will ever live on vishy anand ;7

I had the same reaction. It's funny how semantic mistakes in a thread title can make it sound cute.

Congrats Anand

Wouldn't Anand want to be reincarnated as an ant or something?

Sorry my bad :P i saw the same title on a news website n copied as it is :P ^^,

One day there'll be a planet named 7421-Areez.

that's not a minor planet!

If I were Anand, I would be offended, he is at least a galaxy and a nova with fries.

''Vishy'' is a minor planet in the ''Carlsen'' Solar System :P

xD

Cool!

I find it funny that how many frustated people are here who can't get better in chess and show the grudge on a Grandmaster who is well known for his calm persanlity ^^,

I thought people will appreciate that it is honor for a GM , but too many haters around :P 

Does not matter to him, he lived his life far better than u can even dream of :)

*Peace*

"Vishy Anand is now a planet"

I knew that he'd been putting on a little weight in recent years, but I didn't know it was that bad...

(Ah, just kidding, we all have that problem. I like Vishy, he's a class act.)

i Typed "Vishy Anand" in google, and the top heading was this " Vishy Anand is now a planet" , being lazy ass, i copied n poste here as title  :P