Aswin Sekhar Jun 2026

at the Indian Centre for Space Physics in Kolkata (starting November 2025).

Born in 1985 in a small village in Palakkad, Kerala, Sekhar’s journey did not begin in the halls of Ivy League institutions. Instead, it was sparked by the pristine, unpolluted night skies of his hometown in the 1990s. Watching the Hale-Bopp comet in 1997 and the Leonid meteor storm in 1999 transformed a childhood curiosity into a lifelong pursuit of meteor science . aswin sekhar

"A time capsule," she said. "My grandfather left it for me. He said if I ever found it, I was to bring it to Sekhar. He said you would know the frequency." at the Indian Centre for Space Physics in

You don’t need loud announcements when your work speaks. And Aswin? His work is speaking louder every day. Watching the Hale-Bopp comet in 1997 and the

Perhaps Sekhar’s most cited contribution to planetary science involves the . For over a century, scientists have debated what exactly exploded over the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Siberia, flattening 2,000 square kilometers of forest. Was it a comet? An asteroid? A piece of a dead planet?

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