Tombaugh

• “When Turner finally heard the suggestion from Madan, he thought it such an excellent name that he sent a telegram to astronomer Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, where the planet had been discovered.”

  R.I.P.: the girl who named Pluto

• “This is a stained glass window in the Unitarian church in Las Cruces, New Mexico, which Clyde Tombaugh helped to found.”

  Delightful

• “The most memorable thing about the show was its coverage of Clyde Tombaugh, the totally awesome pioneering astronomer who discovered Pluto in 1930.”

  March 2010

• “The scientists verified what Tombaugh pointed out to them, and on March 13, 1930, they announced the discovery of a ninth planet.”

  The Huffington Post: Kate Kelly: Pluto May No Longer Be a Planet but Its Discoverer is still a Star

• “Tombaugh grew up on a farm near Burdett, Kansas, and during his free time, he experimented with parts of old cars and farm machinery, eventually building his own telescope.”

  The Huffington Post: Kate Kelly: Pluto May No Longer Be a Planet but Its Discoverer is still a Star

• “Tombaugh was honored by organizations throughout the world.”

  The Huffington Post: Kate Kelly: Pluto May No Longer Be a Planet but Its Discoverer is still a Star

• “His friends have included Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Clyde Tombaugh, and most of the Apollo, Gemini and Mercury astronauts, to name just a few.”

  Sir Patrick Moore Has Gone Off His Rocker - NASA Watch

• “Poor Tombaugh was directed to check the entire ecliptic to see if anything out there moved.”

  2012: NASA's Scientific Reality Check | Universe Today

• “We've finally been able to catch up with Tombaugh by using computers and big digital cameras.”

  Newsweek: Michael Brown

• “For me, Pluto will always have a special place in my heart thanks to a cold, January night in Flagstaff, Arizona, when a friend of a friend who happened to have the keys to the Lowell Observatory showed me the equipment that Clyde Tombaugh used to discover Pluto in 1930.”

  My Pluto Memory

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