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    Clyde William Tombaugh /ˈtɒmbaʊ/ (February 4, 1906 – January 17, 1997) was an American astronomer. He discovered the ninth planet Pluto in 1930, the first...
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    Planitia via glacial flow. The region is named after Clyde Tombaugh, the discoverer of Pluto. Tombaugh Regio is a large, light-colored region about 1,590 km...
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    Pluto (category Discoveries by Clyde Tombaugh)
    23-year-old Clyde Tombaugh, who had just arrived at the observatory after Slipher had been impressed by a sample of his astronomical drawings. Tombaugh's task...
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    population was Frederick C. Leonard. Soon after Pluto's discovery by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930, Leonard pondered whether it was "not likely that in Pluto there...
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    International Astronomical Union named asteroid 6618 Jimsimons, which Clyde Tombaugh discovered in 1936, after Simons in honor of his contributions to mathematics...
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    the United States. It was named after the discoverer of Pluto, Clyde Tombaugh. Tombaugh is a member of the Eos family that orbits the Sun in the outer...
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  • theme displayed in the toponymy of this area. The cliffs were named for Clyde Tombaugh (1906-1997), an American astronomer who studied at Lowell Observatory...
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    could have perturbed Uranus enough to account for the irregularities. Clyde Tombaugh's discovery of Pluto in 1930 appeared to validate Lowell's hypothesis...
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    Lowell Observatory that the dwarf planet Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh. The observatory was founded by astronomer Percival Lowell of Boston's...
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    1915, without realizing at the time that it was not a star. In 1930, Clyde Tombaugh, working at the Lowell Observatory, discovered Pluto near the location...
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    called Pluto discoverer Clyde Tombaugh, requesting permission to visit his planet. "I told him he was welcome to it," Tombaugh later remembered, "though...
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    the United States Army's Office of Ordnance Research commissioned Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of Pluto, to search for near-Earth asteroids. The Army issued...
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  • Tombaugh may refer to: Tom Baugh (born 1963, as Thomas Anthony Baugh), U.S. American football center Clyde Tombaugh (1906-1997, born Clyde William Tombaugh)...
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  • of the FBI Clyde Tombaugh (1906–1997), American astronomer, discoverer of Pluto Clyde A. Vaughn (born 1946), United States Army general Clyde De Vinna (1890–1953)...
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  • Use of Simple Materials and Technique" in making telescopes, and the Clyde Tombaugh Award "Creative Innovation in Telescope Design". To better reflect the...
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    discovered by Clyde Tombaugh, whose search for trans-Neptunian objects was sensitive to objects up to magnitude 17. Indeed, in 1934 Tombaugh reported that...
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  • person to suggest the name Pluto for the dwarf planet discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930. At the time, she was 11 years old. Venetia Burney was the daughter...
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    in the shape of a heart, named after the modern discoverer of Pluto, Clyde Tombaugh. The two top lobes of the heart are distinct geological features, both...
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    hypothetical object Planet X, a name previously used by Gabriel Dallet. Clyde Tombaugh continued Lowell's search and in 1930 discovered Pluto, but it was soon...
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    though follow-up concepts have been studied. Pluto, discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930, is an interesting target for planetary exploration, but Pluto...
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    Kansas State High School boys class BB basketball championship in 1954. Clyde Tombaugh, the astronomer who discovered the dwarf planet Pluto in 1930, lived...
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    Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9. Clyde Tombaugh (1906–1997), American astronomer and discoverer of Pluto in 1930. A small sample of Tombaugh's ashes are aboard New...
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    solar system to be found using this technique is Pluto, discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930. The Projection Blink Comparator (PROBLICOM), invented by amateur...
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    discovered Uranus on 13 March 1781 it was located near η Gem. In 1930 Clyde Tombaugh exposed a series of photographic plates centred on δ Gem and discovered...
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    astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, the discoverer of Pluto. Kershaw's mother, born Marianne Tombaugh, is the adopted daughter of Clyde Tombaugh's younger brother...
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    its status as a globular cluster was not ascertained until 1932, when Clyde Tombaugh looked at photographic plates taken of the region near Pi Hydrae on...
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    glass bottle manufacturer Owens-Illinois. The city is the hometown of Clyde Tombaugh, who in 1930 discovered the dwarf planet Pluto, the first object to...
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    TV Corvi (redirect from Tombaugh's Star)
    discovered by accident as a mysterious 12th magnitude star on a plate by Clyde Tombaugh while looking for remote planets on May 25, 1932, before its identity...
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    magnitude of 17 that brightens periodically to magnitude 12, discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1931 and David Levy in 1990 and 2005. Corvus contains no Messier...
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    Charlene Mary since 1975 and has four children. On July 14, 2015, he and Clyde Tombaugh's children were guests at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory...
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