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1 maj 2022 · Learn the story of how Pluto, the dwarf planet, was named by an 11-year-old girl in 1930. Discover the connection between Pluto and Percival Lowell, the astronomer who searched for a Planet X.
Learn how an 11-year-old girl named Pluto after an underworld god in 1930, and how her suggestion was chosen among other proposals. The name Pluto was also honored by New Horizons, the probe that explored the dwarf planet in 2015.
29 sie 2019 · Learn how a schoolgirl from England suggested Pluto, the god of the underworld, as the name for the new planet discovered in 1930. Explore the hundreds of other proposals and the social context behind them.
In 1941, Glenn T. Seaborg named the newly created element plutonium after Pluto, in keeping with the tradition of naming elements after newly discovered planets, following uranium, which was named after Uranus, and neptunium, which was named after Neptune.
In an interview with NASA in January 2006, Venetia said she offered the name Pluto over breakfast with her mother and grandfather. It was March 14, 1930, and her grandfather, Falconer Madan, had announced that scientists discovered the ninth planet.
18 lut 2015 · The astronomer Clyde W. Tombaugh, then a 24-year-old research assistant at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz., was the first to find photographic evidence of a ninth planet on this day,...
28 lip 2022 · 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.
