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3 days ago · Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde W. Tombaugh, making it by far the first known object in the Kuiper belt. It was immediately hailed as the ninth planet , but it was always the odd object out, [15] : 27 and its planetary status was questioned when it was found to be much smaller than expected.
- Planets Beyond Neptune
Clyde Tombaugh's discovery of Pluto in 1930 appeared to...
- Charon
Charon (/ ˈ k ɛər ɒ n,-ə n / KAIR-on, -ən or / ˈ ʃ ær ə n /...
- Pluto (Mythology)
1st century sculpture of Pluto in the Getty Villa. In...
- IAU Definition of Planet
Euler diagram showing the IAU Executive Committee conception...
- Dwarf Planet
A dwarf planet is a small planetary-mass object that is in...
- Eris
Eris (minor-planet designation: 136199 Eris) is the most...
- Planets Beyond Neptune
3 days ago · Plaid Cymru ( English: / plaɪdˈkʌmri / PLYDEKUM-ree; [31] Welsh: [plaid ˈkəmri], lit.'Party of Wales'; officially Plaid Cymru – the Party of Wales, and often referred to simply as Plaid) is a centre-left to left-wing, Welsh nationalist political party in Wales, committed to Welsh independence from the United Kingdom.
2 days ago · Flagstaff had also been highlighted on the map by Clyde Tombaugh's 1930 discovery of Pluto from the Lowell Observatory. [43] [41] However, the importance of Route 66 to cross-country travel, and thus to Arizona's interests on a national level, did mean that it received a large share of state funding through the Depression, with highway maintenance and unemployment acts providing over $1 ...
2 days ago · Wayne's father, Clyde Leonard Morrison (1884–1937), was the son of American Civil War veteran Marion Mitchell Morrison (1845–1915). Wayne's mother, the former Mary "Molly" Alberta Brown (1885–1970), was from Lancaster County, Nebraska.
3 days ago · Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg ( French: [ʒɑ̃ klod kamij fʁɑ̃swa vɑ̃ vaʁɑ̃bɛʁɡ]; Dutch: [vɑn ˈvarə (n)ˈbɛrx]; born 18 October 1960), known professionally as Jean-Claude Van Damme ( French: [vɑ̃ dam]; Dutch: [vɑn ˈdɑmə] ), is a Belgian martial artist and actor. Born and raised in Brussels, his father ...
2 days ago · Après sa découverte par l'astronome américain Clyde Tombaugh en 1930, Pluton était considérée comme la neuvième planète du Système solaire. À la fin du XX e siècle et au début du XXI e siècle, de plus en plus d'objets similaires furent découverts dans le Système solaire externe, en particulier Éris, alors estimé légèrement ...
4 days ago · Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( / ˈkoʊlərɪdʒ / KOH-lə-rij; [1] 21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets with his friend William Wordsworth.
