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RIP, Venetia Phair - Thank you for Pluto
This news comes a bit late, but nonetheless sad. On April 30 of this year, 90 year-old Venetia Phair, the girl who named Pluto, died. We have her to thank for much of America's warm feelings towards this dwarf planet.
According to the New York Times, "On March 14, 1930, the day newspapers reported that the long-suspected “trans-Neptunian body” had been photographed for the first time, she proposed to her well-connected grandfather that it be named Pluto, after the Roman god of the underworld.
"And so it was."
I came across this news on the web site of my favorite store, the Greenwood Space Travel Supply Company.
Transmitted by Michael Bowers
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