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    Clyde William Tombaugh /ˈtɒmbaʊ/ (February 4, 1906 – January 17, 1997) was an American astronomer. He discovered Pluto in 1930, the first object to be...
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    Planitia via glacial flow. The region is named after Clyde Tombaugh, the discoverer of Pluto. Tombaugh Regio is a large, light-colored region about 1,590 km...
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    Pluto (category Discoveries by Clyde Tombaugh)
    23-year-old Clyde Tombaugh, who had just arrived at the observatory after Slipher had been impressed by a sample of his astronomical drawings. Tombaugh's task...
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  • recipient Clyde Tolson, (1900–1975), Associate Director of the FBI Clyde Tombaugh (1906–1997), American astronomer, discoverer of Pluto Clyde A. Vaughn...
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    population was Frederick C. Leonard. Soon after Pluto's discovery by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930, Leonard pondered whether it was "not likely that in Pluto there...
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    Lowell Observatory that the dwarf planet Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh. The observatory was founded by astronomer Percival Lowell of Boston's...
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  • Tombaugh may refer to: Tom Baugh (born 1963, as Thomas Anthony Baugh), U.S. American football center Clyde Tombaugh (1906-1997, born Clyde William Tombaugh)...
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    called Pluto discoverer Clyde Tombaugh, requesting permission to visit his planet. "I told him he was welcome to it," Tombaugh later remembered, "though...
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    Renaissance Technologies. In 2016, asteroid 6618 Jimsimons, discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1936, was named after Simons by the International Astronomical Union...
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    the United States Army's Office of Ordnance Research commissioned Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of Pluto, to search for near-Earth asteroids. The Army issued...
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