Meet Anish Mukherjee and Debarghya Sarkar whose bottle cap project has earned them the honour of having two minor planets named after them. They talk about coping with studies and what drives them to excel.
The two young boys you see in the picture alongside have touched heaven, literally.
Anish Mukherjee (18) and Debarghya Sarkar (19) have just graduated from South Point High School in Kolkata and already have one minor planet each being named after them.
Minor planet 2000 AH52 (Citation No 25629) is now known as Mukherjee and minor planet 2000 AT53 (Citation No 25630) is named after Sarkar.
This reward is a result of an unsuspecting bottle cap design, which the two are now in the process of patenting.
For the last eight months Mukherjee and Sarkar have been working on an innovative design that would make bottle-caps completely tamper proof.
They presented their design at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair at Reno in Nevada last year and won the second grand prize -- the honour of having a minor planet each being named after them.
Discovered by MIT Lincoln Laboratory, these heavenly bodies were officially named sometime in March and Mukherjee and Sarkar were informed about it late last month.
The two who have been classmates for the last couple of years at South Point High School are now studying in Jadavpur University.
Anish Mukherjee and Debarghya Sarkar tell us how they balanced their project and schoolwork and managed to etch their names in space.
Image: Anish Mukherjee (L) and Debarghya Sarkar at the International Science and Engineering Fair
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