16-year-old Bengaluru girl to get a planet named after her
A minor planet in the Milky Way galaxy would be named after 16-year-old Sahithi Pingali from Bengaluru. The class 12 student represented India and finished second at ISEF, world's largest international pre-college science competition, following which MIT decided to name a planet after her. Sahithi had developed a mobile application which obtains data by crowdsourcing to measure pollution in lakes.