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In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Pluto (Greek: Πλούτων, Ploutōn) was the ruler of the Greek underworld. The earlier name for the god was Hades, which became more common as the name of the underworld itself. Pluto represents a more positive concept of the god who presides over the afterlife.
Venetia Katharine Douglas Burney (married name Phair, 11 July 1918 – 30 April 2009) was an English accountant and teacher. She is remembered as the first person to suggest the name Pluto for the dwarf planet discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930. At the time, she was 11 years old.
The name Pluto came from the Roman god of the underworld; and it is also an epithet for Hades (the Greek equivalent of Pluto). Upon the announcement of the discovery, Lowell Observatory received over a thousand suggestions for names. [23] Three names topped the list: Minerva, Pluto and Cronus.
Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh, an American astronomer at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Cold, dark and distant, it was named after the Roman god of the underworld. In Greek ...
Pluto (named after the Greek god of the underworld) was given a classical name, as it was considered a major planet when it was discovered. The names of Uranus ( 天 王星 "sky king star"), Neptune ( 海 王星 "sea king star"), and Pluto ( 冥 王星 "underworld king star") in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese are calques based on the roles of ...
The Kuiper belt dwarf planet Orcus is named after Orcus. This is because Orcus was sometimes considered to be another name for Pluto, and also because Pluto and Orcus are both plutinos. Orcus has one known moon, Vanth. In the TV series Happy! (2017–2019), Orcus possesses members of the Scaramucci crime family.
Πλούτων (Ploutōn) via "Pluto" Greek via Latin "god of wealth" [59] astrological; mythological Named after the dwarf planet Pluto (then considered to be the ninth planet), because it was discovered directly after element neptunium and is higher than element uranium in the periodic table. Thus, plutonium was named by analogy with the ...
Clyde William Tombaugh (/ ˈ t ɒ m b aʊ /; February 4, 1906 – January 17, 1997) was an American astronomer.He discovered Pluto in 1930, the first object to be discovered in what would later be identified as the Kuiper belt.