Tombaugh, Clyde William (1906-97)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4060. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Born near Streator, IL, became interested in astronomy as a boy and, on the basis of some observations which he sent to the Lowell Observatory, was hired as an astronomer there to search for `Planet X' beyond Neptune. Photographing 65% of the sky, he discovered several star clusters, two comets, more than a hundred asteroids, dozens of clusters of galaxies—and the planet Pluto. He worked on the c...

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