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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 .
Tortugas Mountain Observatory (TMO) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by New Mexico State University (NMSU). It is located on Tortugas Mountain, also known locally as 'A' Mountain, in southern New Mexico (USA), approximately 8 kilometers (5.0 mi) southeast of Las Cruces and 4 kilometers (2.5 mi) east of the NMSU campus.
Founded in 1967 under the supervision of Clyde Tombaugh, the observatory was closed in 1993. [1] [2] [3] The site and the 30 acres (0.047 sq mi; 0.12 km 2) surrounding it were conveyed to the Federal Aviation Administration, which tore down the observatory building and replaced it with a radar installation. [4]
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The New Mexico House of Representatives passed a resolution in honor of Clyde Tombaugh, the discoverer of Pluto and a longtime resident of that state, that declared that Pluto will always be considered a planet while in New Mexican skies and that March 13, 2007, was Pluto Planet Day.
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.
The Apollo 8 1968 Christmas Eve broadcast and reading from the Book of Genesis The Apollo 8 Genesis reading (audio). On Christmas Eve, December 24, 1968, the crew of Apollo 8, the first humans to travel to the Moon, read from the Book of Genesis during a television broadcast.
Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer who discovered Pluto. Benjamin West, American astronomer, mathematician, professor at Rhode Island College, and publisher of several series of North American almanacs. Mary Anning, an amateur palaeontologist. Her findings contributed to important changes in scientific thinking about prehistoric life and the ...