Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh while he worked at Lowell Observatory in Flagship, Arizona. Sputnik Planitia is a white basin measuring 750 by 1,250 miles near Pluto's equator that ...

For that's the day my father, Clyde Tombaugh, a farmboy-turned-astronomer, discovered Pluto, becoming the first American to find a planet. (Or a dwarf planet, as it's now officially known.) ...

What is the smallest planet?: A closer look at planet sizes Pluto came into the lexicon in 1930 when astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered it when searching for signs of a planet. It wasn’t until ...

Tombaugh, of course, is the Kansan who discovered Pluto in 1930. He died in 1997, but the scientific dispute about Pluto’s status – whether it deserves to be labeled a “planet” – is ...

The spacecraft could have been called Orpheus. The story of Pluto is a fascinating chapter in the history of astronomy.

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