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Clyde
Tombaugh: Discoverer of Planet Pluto
In 1930 astronomer Clyde Tombaugh made the discovery of a lifetime: the planet Pluto.
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Clyde
Tombaugh and the Search for Planet X
The story of the young farm boy who became an astronomer and discovered the planet Pluto at the age of twenty-four.
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Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers
Born Streator, Illinois, USA, 4 February 1906 Died Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA
, 17 January 1997 Clyde Tombaugh was the only person in the 20th century to
discover an object classified as a major planet orbiting the Sun. Tombaugh was ...
Thomas Hockey, Katherine Bracher, Marvin Bolt, 2007
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The 20th Century O-Z: Dictionary of World Biography
In 1943, Tombaugh began teaching physics and navigation for the Navy at
Arizona State Teachers' College in Flagstaff. In 1946, he moved to Las Cruces,
New Mexico, to take a position as an optical physicist and astronomer at the
White ...
At about the same time, a young man from western Kansas named Clyde
Tombaugh built a 9-inch (23-cm) telescope in his backyard from spare farm
machinery and car parts. Tombaugh did not have any formal training in
astronomy. He was a ...
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Planet Quest: The Epic Discovery of Alien Solar Systems
As Tombaugh later wrote, “Had not Cronus been proposed by a certain detested
egocentric astronomer [i.e., Thomas Jefferson jackson See], that name might
have been considered.” The third and winning choice was Pluto, the god of the ...
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Cosmic Challenge: The Ultimate Observing List for Amateurs
We're hunting for Pluto, the now-demoted dwarf planet discovered by Clyde
Tombaugh after an exhaustive photographic search for what many had dubbed
Planet X. He finally spotted his quarry among the stars of Gemini using a
specially ...
Philip S. Harrington, 2010
An avid amateur astronomer, Tombaugh had built a series of telescopes for his
own use and in June 1928 had sent Slipher detailed drawings of the surfaces of
Mars and Jupiter. Slipher wrote back immediately, asking Tombaugh to join him
in ...
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Planets Beyond: Discovering the Outer Solar System
Tombaugh started in Cancer, to the east of Lowell's predicted location Clyde
Tombaugh with his homemade 9-inch telescope on his family's farm in Kansas.
The year is 1928, and Tombaugh is 22 years old. Clyde W. Tombaugh Slipher
met ...
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Astronomical Enigmas: Life on Mars, the Star of Bethlehem, ...
Then, on June 18, Slipher asked Tombaugh to start the job in earnest. A week or
so later Slipher and Tombaugh were showing a visiting astronomer the new
telescope and explaining about the search for the planet. At one point Slipher
had to ...
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Las Cruces Style: A valentine from Pluto's Tombaugh Regio
It was Annette Tombaugh. She and her brother Alden were there at ground zero in Laurel, Md., at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, which ... «Las Cruces Sun-News, Lip 15»
Letter: Remembering Clyde Tombaugh, Pluto's discoverer
During the mid 1990s, I was a representative for a technology company working the Midwest mostly by car. I had to pick up an associate in Wichita, Kansas, one ... «The State Journal-Register, Lip 15»
New Horizons encounter plus one week: Weird and wonderful …
My favorite thing today has been the release of two frames from the high-resolution mosaic over the southern end of Tombaugh regio. I have mosaicked them ... «The Planetary Society, Lip 15»
Pluto's icy plains, pits, and mountains take shape in Tombaugh Regio
In the center left of Pluto's vast heart-shaped feature — informally named “Tombaugh Regio” — lies a vast craterless plain that appears to be no more than 100 ... «Astronomy Magazine, Lip 15»
Clyde Tombaugh granted dying wish, ashes visit Pluto in New …
Clyde Tombaugh was only 24 years old when he confirmed the solar system had a ninth planet. Astronomers had predicted its existence for decades but it was ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Lip 15»
Remembering Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of the (dwarf) planet Pluto
Clyde William Tombaugh was born on Feb. 4, 1906 to Adella and Muran Tombaugh in Streator, Illinois, Earth. By day, he worked on his family's fields, but at ... «Macleans.ca, Lip 15»
NASA probe passes Pluto, carrying ashes of man who discovered it
A small amount of the ashes of American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh are on board the ... Tombaugh, who grew up on a farm in Kansas, was working at Lowell ... «CNN, Lip 15»
Places on Pluto are Being Named for Your Darkest Imaginings
The now-iconic heart of Pluto has an official informal name, Tombaugh Regio after Clyde Tombaugh, the discoverer of Pluto. Admittedly, its new name only ... «io9, Lip 15»
Artist honors Streator native Tombaugh with portrait and Pluto painting
Kettman said he hid secret tiny messages (too small to be seen in this image) written into Tombaugh's tie in his painting which include the words, STREATOR, ... «The Times, Lip 15»
Author Michael Byers shares thoughts on his Clyde Tombaugh novel
One of the great books about Clyde Tombaugh and the discovery of Pluto is “Percivial's Planet,” a novelization of the discovery of the planet that also folds in ... «Arizona Daily Sun, Lip 15»
