Clyde Tombaugh

[Clyde Tombaugh @TombaughClyde]

@sagan_bacon1934 not cool bro #dwarfplanetsareplanetstoo

[Clyde Tombaugh @TombaughClyde]

just because Pluto is smaller than Russia, doesn't mean it isn't a planet #familystickstogether

[Clyde Tombaugh @TombaughClyde]

#dwarfplanetsareplanetstoo https://t.co/xh5N81YizT

[Clyde Tombaugh @TombaughClyde]

I worked at the White Sands Missile Range for 9 years, and was given the medal of the Pioneers

[Clyde Tombaugh @TombaughClyde]

a hailstorm ruined all my family's crops, so I wasn't able to go to college until after I had already been working at the Lowell Observatory

[Clyde Tombaugh @TombaughClyde]

aliens are 100% real i've seen UFO's in New Mexico #astrostars

[Clyde Tombaugh @TombaughClyde]

I may have discovered Pluto, but I actually let an 11 year old girl name it #trickytricky

[Clyde Tombaugh @TombaughClyde]

by the end of my life, I had counted 29,000 galaxies #lotsofstars

[Clyde Tombaugh @TombaughClyde]

I taught navigation to the US Navy at Arizona State College #astrostars

[Clyde Tombaugh @TombaughClyde]

i named my two children, Annette and Alden, after the asteroids I discovered #obsessed

[Clyde Tombaugh @TombaughClyde]

it took ten months full of examining photos of the night sky for me to discover Pluto

[Clyde Tombaugh @TombaughClyde]

I was able to photograph 65% of the night sky #astrostars

[Clyde Tombaugh @TombaughClyde]

"By the time I was in sixth grade I could bound every country in the world from memory." - Clyde Tombaugh

[Clyde Tombaugh @TombaughClyde]

after I passed away, part of my ashes were put on the New Horizons Spacecraft #flyinghigh

[Clyde Tombaugh @TombaughClyde]

@ClaytonKersh22 is my great nephew #freedodgerstickets

[Clyde Tombaugh @TombaughClyde]

I built my first telescope when I was twenty and made 30 more throughout my life #100HappyDays

[Clyde Tombaugh @TombaughClyde]

is pluto a planet?

[Clyde Tombaugh @TombaughClyde]

all my students at New Mexico State University better have their Astronomy homework done for tomorrow #hatersaremymotivaters #astrostars

[Clyde Tombaugh @TombaughClyde]

discovered Pluto before I even went to college #balla #astrostars