who discovered Pluto
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Clyde Tombaugh
Clyde Tombaugh, Discoverer of Pluto. NASA. The search for Planet X did not resume until 1929, when the job was handed to Clyde Tombaugh, a 23-year-old Kansan who had just arrived at the Lowell Observatory.
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- who discovered Pluto?
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- Clyde Tombaugh
- Pluto was finally discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory, based on predictions by Lowell and other astronomers. Pluto got its name from 11-year-old Venetia Burney of Oxford, England, who suggested to her grandfather that the new world get its name from the Roman god of the underworld.
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