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Pluto Discoverer Still Obsessed With the Sky
Clyde Tombaugh, 84, the discoverer of Pluto, remains active in astronomy. He lectures to raise funds for postdoctoral students, builds telescopes with his granddaughter helping, and continues field work after six decades since 1930 discovery at Lowell Observatory.
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Spencerport
N.Y
Pluto
Earth
Clyde Tombaugh
Tombaugh
New Mexico State University
Hunter
Lowell Observatory
Kansas
Mars
Jupiter
Flagstaff
Ariz
Neptune
John C Adams
Urbain J J. Leverrier
Percival Lowell
Uranus
Neptune Tombaugh
Milky Way