KOLLAM, KERALA- In a rare honour for an Indian, space agency NASA has named a ‘minor’ planet after a Kerala zoology professor in appreciation of his environmental research and campaigns.

Sainudeen Pattazhy, who teaches in a local college, was informed on Wednesday by Jet Propulsions Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology under NASA that minor planet ’5178 No CD4’ had been named after him.

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