Astronomer R Rajamohan passed away

Category : Obituaries Published on: February 10 2022

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Professor R Rajamohan, who was an astronomer at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), Bengaluru, for decades, passed away.
He is best known for his Kalki Project, which aimed to discover asteroids using the 48-cm Schmidt telescope in Kavalur VBO and discovered a new asteroid, number 4130, from India.
This was the first asteroid discovered in India in 104 years.

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