Clyde Tombaugh

Famous astronomer who discovered the beautiful planet Pluto. I'm very old with a whole bunch of siblings. Wow.

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This is my baby, Pluto.

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Venetia Katharine Douglas Phair, née Burney was an English woman known for being the first person to suggest the name Pluto.

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I had 5 siblings. Everyday was very interesting.

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@CassaniThe i love everything about this

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I sent drawings of Jupiter and Mars to the Lowell Observatory, who then offered me a job. Crazy i know. Wild.

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" That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody. "

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When you have a stroke and die lmao, but like literally.

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Tombaugh's plans for attending college were unfulfilled when a hailstorm ruined his family's farm crops.

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i discovered Pluto. Guess you could say im pretty amazing.🧐

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i died on January 17, 1997, congestive heart failure, yikes

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I was born on February 4, 1906. Im h*cking old!!!

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Tombaugh was born in Streator, Illinois but moved with his family to Burdett, Kansas in 1922.

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Dawson likes to rock climb

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Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.

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