Why Pluto is named after a 11 year girl?
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An 11-year-old girl from Oxford, England is credited for naming Pluto. Venetia Burney suggested the name to her grandfather after being inspired bythe Roman god of the underworld. ... It also didn't hurt that the first two letters of Pluto are the initials of Percival Lowell, the observatory's founder.
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Venetia Katharine Douglas Burney (marriedname Phair, 11 July 1918 – 30 April 2009) was an English girl credited by Clyde Tombaugh with first suggesting the name Pluto for the planet he discovered in 1930. At the time, she was 11 years old and lived in Oxford, England.
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