Category Archives: First Contact

NEO 103397 renamed “Chandra” (excerpt from “Amateur Astronomy Monthly”) Many of you will have been following the fascinating progress of object 2014RB6, an asteroid first discovered by Dr. Narayan Ramakesh last week. As one of the many millions of listed objects in our galaxy it caused little interest until the La Sagra Astronomical Laboratory in Almería, Spain confirmed the discovery and named it NEO (Near Earth Object) 103397. Yesterday, as the discoverer of the object, Dr. Ramakesh announced the object was being named ‘Chandra’ after the Hindu goddess of the moo ...mere