Pluto named by an 11-year-old schoolgirl after the god of the underworld
Posted on Nov 18, 2011 under Planet X, Uncategorized | Comments are offPluto was discovered in 1930 by a 24-year-old “amateur” astronomer from Illinois, Clyde Tombaugh (1906-1997) [1-4]. He found Pluto photographically as a faint, slowly moving spot while working at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff (Arizona) searching for a mysterious Planet X, whose existence had b …
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Pluto named by an 11-year-old schoolgirl after the god of the underworld