Clyde Tombaugh

[Clyde Tombaugh @OGClydeTombaugh]

Kendrick Lamar was my favorite rapper

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I had a son, Alden, and a beautiful daughter Annette.

[Clyde Tombaugh @OGClydeTombaugh]

Born: February 4, 1906, Streator, IL
Died: January 17, 1997, Las Cruces, NM

[Clyde Tombaugh @OGClydeTombaugh]

After my family moved to Kansas in 1922, my plans for attending college were frustrated when a hailstorm ruined my family's farm crops 😒😒

[Clyde Tombaugh @OGClydeTombaugh]

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

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Did you know, in my 14 years of looking for planets, I have looked for motion in 90 million star images???

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Did you know, in 1990, I was awarded the Rittenhouse Medal for my outstanding achievements in the science of Astrology???

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Did you know: The asteroid 1604 Tombaugh, discovered in 1931, is named after me???

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Did you know that, during World War II, I taught naval personnel navigation at Northern Arizona University???

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Did you know that I graduated from the University of Kansas???

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Did you know that I discovered Pluto before I even had a college degree???

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Did you know: I used to send drawings of Jupiter and Mars to the Lowell Observatory, which offered me a job???

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Did you know that, starting in 1926, I built several telescopes with lenses and mirrors all with my own 2 hands???

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Did you know that I was the son of a farmer???

[Clyde Tombaugh @OGClydeTombaugh]

Did you know that I called for the serious scientific research of unidentified flying objects, or UFOs???

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Did you know...

[Mr. Drews @mrdrewsscience]

Astronomy tweet of the day!

[Clyde Tombaugh @OGClydeTombaugh]

your mustache looks like it's about to caw a few times then fly off your lip https://t.co/ybAEFxVkyY

[Ejnar Hertzsprung @EHertzsprung]

Chokers have gotten out of hand @JohannesK2nd

[Clyde Tombaugh @OGClydeTombaugh]

delete your account. https://t.co/hAzqWn26Uc

[Edwin Hubble @_edwin_hubble_]

@_edwin_hubble_ 6) I survived a heart attack