Hey, you don't have to apologize, it's fine.
Vishy Anand is now a planet
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CountvonGorski wrote:
Who wouldn't want to have something in space named after them?
Yes, thats what i wanted to say :) Its a big achievement,but people just have hates in their heart here:)
DrCheckevertim wrote:
Hey, you don't have to apologize, it's fine.
Thank you ^^, just thought its polite way :)
Apr 4, 2015
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stuzzicadenti wrote:
wait this is not April Fool's joke? ...
http://en.chessbase.com/post/google-tooth-you-must-be-kidding
manic13 wrote:
''Vishy'' is a minor planet in the ''Carlsen'' Solar System :P
Shots fired! 
kinghunter75 wrote:
Just to give this all a bit of perspective, anyone with a few bucks can get a planet or star named after them. Anand is a great grandmaster and deserves our respect, but please let's not worship him. It was a nice gesture, but it really doesn't mean anything as there are more small planets than the population of the earth and probably billions of stars per person on earth. Go Anand and keep on playing!
Yeah, but Vishy Anand became a planet. Big difference.
Here he is holding the planet, ready to throw it into orbit.
Much like Marvin the paranoid android, Anand has a brain the size of a planet.
bendzsa12 wrote:
What about Carlsen?!
carlsen is the galaxy, forgot?
15x15 what? Millimetres?
tigerprowl9 wrote:
Here he is holding the planet, ready to throw it into orbit.
kinghunter75 wrote:
Just to give this all a bit of perspective, anyone with a few bucks can get a planet or star named after them. Anand is a great grandmaster and deserves our respect, but please let's not worship him. It was a nice gesture, but it really doesn't mean anything as there are more small planets than the population of the earth and probably billions of stars per person on earth. Go Anand and keep on playing!
Not really. There's a scam where the suckers pay for a phoney certificate saying some star is named after them, but it isn't really.
Not really. There's a scam where the suckers pay for a phoney certificate saying some star is named after them, but it isn't really.
What about Ringo ? He hasn't paid....
The minor planet names are given by International Astronomical Union, not by NASA (correcting the headline). However, congratulations to Anand who deserved this honour! In addition: asteroid 154493 is named after Hungarian grand master Lajos Portisch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meanings_of_minor_planet_names:_154001%E2%80%93155000#493
Who wouldn't want to have something in space named after them?