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1. www.amightygirl.com › the-girl-who-named-plutoThe Girl Who Named Pluto: The Story of Venetia Burney

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   2 days ago · 11-year-old Venetia Burney becomes fascinated by the planets after her school's "planet walk," where they place objects to represent the known planets. Then she learns something exciting: a new planet has been discovered, and they're still choosing a name!

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3. blog.acereader.com › general › short-reading-namingShort Reading: Naming the Planets - blog.acereader.com

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   4 days ago · And now back to Venetia Burney. Urban legend has it that Burney named Pluto after the dog from Walt Disney ’ s Mickey Mouse cartoons. Historians, though, have proven otherwise. The dog in the cartoon went by “Rover” until 1931, when the writers switched his name to “Pluto.”

4. nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov › nmc › experimentNASA - NSSDCA - Experiment - Details

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   Sep 23, 2024 · The Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter (Venetia) is an education and public outreach project designed by students to measure the concentration of dust particles in the outer solar system. It will count and measure the sizes of dust impacts during the cruise to Pluto and beyond.

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     The girl who named Pluto //The story of Venetia Burney.

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6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › PlutoPluto - Wikipedia

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   4 days ago · The first [h] had been from Venetia Burney (1918–2009), an eleven-year-old schoolgirl in Oxford, England, who was interested in classical mythology.

7. nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov › nmc › datasetNASA - NSSDCA - NMC - Data Collection - Query Results

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   Sep 27, 2024 · New Horizons SDC Calibrated Data, Post-Launch Checkout (PDS) New Horizons Pluto Kuiper Belt Flyby:Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter (Venetia) NEW HORIZONS SDC JUPITER ENCOUNTER RAW V3.0 (PDS) New Horizons Pluto Kuiper Belt Flyby:Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter (Venetia)

8. nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov › nmc › spacecraftNASA - NSSDCA - Experiment - Query Results

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   4 days ago · Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter (Venetia) New Horizons Pluto Kuiper Belt Flyby: Horanyi, Mihaly: Visible Imager and Imaging Spectrometer (Ralph)

9. juliefowler.substack.com › p › the-importance-ofThe Importance of Being Plutoed - juliefowler.substack.com

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   Sep 20, 2024 · Pluto was discovered in 1930 by American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, and named by Venetia Burney, an eleven year old British school girl, who was interested in classical mythology. After her grandfather Falconer Madan had seen the news about its discovery, he shared his granddaughter’s suggestion with Herbert Hall, a professor of astronomy.