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May 1, 2022 · Image via NASA. May 1, 1930: Pluto gets a name. On May 1 in the year 1930, 11-year-old Venetia Burney in Oxford, England, received £5 for her clever suggestion of the name Pluto for a...
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.
Jul 14, 2015 · But, how did the enigmatic dwarf planet get its own name? Clyde Tombaugh first captured snapshots of Pluto in February of 1930 at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona.
Aug 29, 2019 · This telegram shows the original suggestion of the name Pluto, conceived by schoolgirl Venetia Burney and submitted via by her grandfather to Lowell Observatory. The staggering media...
The name Pluto came from the Roman god of the underworld; and it is also an epithet for Hades (the Greek equivalent of Pluto). Upon the announcement of the discovery, Lowell Observatory received over a thousand suggestions for names. [23] Three names topped the list: Minerva, Pluto and Cronus.
Feb 18, 2015 · His discovery launched a worldwide scramble to name the frozen, farthest-away planet.
