: Witnessing this spectacular comet as a young boy while visiting family in Nagaland left a lasting visual impression.
Dr. Aswin Sekhar has built a career focused on the study of small bodies within our solar system. His research often involves complex simulations of meteoroid streams and their interactions with planets, including Earth.
His scientific contributions primarily revolve around and planetary defense . In an era where space debris and near-Earth objects (NEOs) pose existential threats, Sekhar’s research provided critical data on the flux of meteoroids and their impact on Earth’s atmosphere. For a time, his trajectory seemed fixed: a life of telescopes, data sets, and peer-reviewed journals. However, the call to apply scientific rigor to human development proved too strong to ignore. aswin sekhar
A significant portion of Dr. Sekhar's research involves understanding how meteoroids move and disperse after breaking away from their parent bodies, such as asteroids or comets. Key Contributions in Astronomy
: He has studied how general relativity influences solar system bodies, specifically how precise gravitational modeling alters predictions of orbital calculations. : Witnessing this spectacular comet as a young
The asteroid, formally designated , was discovered in 2000 by the NASA-funded Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search (LONEOS) program in Arizona. The honour, announced at the Asteroids, Comets, Meteors Conference in Arizona on June 21, 2023, placed him in an elite pantheon of Indian scientific legends. He is only the sixth Indian to receive this recognition, joining the ranks of Nobel laureates C.V. Raman and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar , mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan , space pioneer Vikram Sarabhai , and astronomer Vainu Bappu .
: Holds an MSc in Physics from VIT and a BSc from the University of Kerala. His research often involves complex simulations of meteoroid
Aswin returned the watch to his pocket. He looked around his shop, seeing it not as a fortress against the world, but as a place of connection.
Each camera is controlled by a mini-PC (RaspBerry Pi or Odroid) and runs the "RMS" (Raspberry Meteor Station) software, allowing for high-efficiency, portable meteor tracking. Public Outreach and Citizen Science
, studying how resonance and relativity affect the orbits of small celestial bodies. Key Achievement: