{"id":90595,"date":"2020-01-26T12:20:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-26T12:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=90595"},"modified":"2020-01-26T12:20:02","modified_gmt":"2020-01-26T12:20:02","slug":"bibha-and-santamasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/bibha-and-santamasa\/","title":{"rendered":"Bibha and Santamasa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: On December 17, 2019; the International Astronomical Union (IAU) announced that it has renamed a white yellow star and its exoplanet.Which of the following statements regarding the above information is wrong?<br> (a) With New name now this star would be called Bibha<br> (b) Its planet would be known as Santamasa<br> (c) It is located in the Sextans constellation<br> (d) New names, given to this star and the planet, are of French origin<br> Answer: (d)<br> Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On December 17, 2019; The International Astronomical Union (IAU) announced that it has renamed white yellow star and its exoplanet located in Sextans constellation.<\/li><li>With New name now this star would be called Bibha and its planet would be known as Santamasa.<\/li><li>It should be known that this white yellow star in Sextans constellation and its Jupiter-like exoplanet were previously named as HD 86081 and 86081b.<\/li><li>The new names Bibha and Santamasa given to the star and the planet respectively are actually the Indian names.<\/li><li>The star has been named in honour of a pioneering Indian woman scientist Bibha Choudhury, who discovered subatomic particle, pi-meson. Bhibha also means a bright beam of light in Bengali.<\/li><li>The planet has been named Santamasa to reflect the cloudy nature of its atmosphere. Santamasa is the Sanskrit term for clouded.<\/li><li>The IAU chose the name at the end of a global contest called NameExoWorlds, which was organised as part of its centenary celebrations. <\/li><li>The agency, which turned 100 on July 28, had allowed every country in the world to give a famous name to a selected pair of exoplanet and its host star.<\/li><li>India was allotted HD 86081 and its exoplanet HD 86081b.<\/li><li>The contest was launched on 10th July 2019. By August 15, the last date for submission, a total of 1,717 youngsters had suggested names.<\/li><li>The committee of experts shortlisted10 for public voting. The final entry was selected after voting by 5,587 people.<\/li><li><strong>The students who named these celestial bodies:-<\/strong><\/li><li>A 22-year-old student of Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology at Surat, Ananyo Bhattacharya, had suggested the name of Bhibha for the star.<\/li><li>Vidyasagar Daud a 13-year-old student of Singhad Spring Dale Public School, Pune, had suggested \u2018Santamasa\u2019 for the planet.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/binj.in\/science\/a-star-and-its-planet-get-indian-names-after-a-global-contest\/\">https:\/\/binj.in\/science\/a-star-and-its-planet-get-indian-names-after-a-global-contest\/<br><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/a-star-and-its-planet-get-indian-names-after-a-global-contest\/article30336302.ece\">https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/a-star-and-its-planet-get-indian-names-after-a-global-contest\/article30336302.ece<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: On December 17, 2019; the International Astronomical Union (IAU) announced that it has renamed a white yellow star and its exoplanet.Which of the following statements regarding the above information is wrong? (a) With New name now this star would be called Bibha (b) Its planet would be known as Santamasa (c) It is located [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":90599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1123],"tags":[3067],"class_list":["post-90595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-snes","tag-scientific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}