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- May 1, 1930: Pluto Gets A Name
- Percival Lowell and Planet X
- Naming The New Planet
- Pluto Loses Planetary Status
- New Horizons Visit Distant Pluto
On May 1 in the year 1930, 11-year-old Venetia Burney in Oxford, England, received £5 for her clever suggestion of the name Plutofor a little world at the outer reaches of our solar system. At the time, Pluto was considered our solar system’s outermost and newest planet. The story began earlier that year, when Clyde W. Tombaugh– an assistant at the...
And it began earlier still, when the American astronomer Percival Lowell initiated the search for a planet beyond Neptune in the early part of the 20th century. He said he was searching for a Planet X. Lowell believed that something largewas gravitationally pulling on Neptune and the next planet inward, Uranus. He felt that this unseen Planet X was...
In 1930, it wasn’t the International Astronomical Union (IAU) but the Lowell Observatory– where both Lowell and Tombaugh had conducted the search for an unseen, outermost planet – that had the right to name the new object. According to the Library of Congress, the observatory received 1,000 suggestions worldwide. Venetia Burney suggested the name P...
From its discovery in 1930 until 2006 – for over seven decades – Pluto held its place as the ninth planet of our solar system. In 2006, the IAU redefined planets and instituted the category of “dwarf planet.” The solar system contains at least fivedwarf planets recognized so far by the IAU, including Pluto.
In 2015, the New Horizons spacecraftbecame the first-ever (and possibly only-ever, in some of our lifetimes) spacecraft to visit Pluto and its system of moons. NASA now says: Check out Pluto’s overview page at NASA Read about New Horizons’ next target, 2014 MU69, aka Ultima Thule(now named Arrokoth) Bottom line: Pluto officially received its name o...
Apr 24, 2009 · Venetia Burney Phair came up with the title over breakfast on March 14, 1930. THE story of how an 11-year-old Oxford schoolgirl named the planet Pluto is explored in a new documentary which...
Venetia Katharine Douglas Burney (married name Phair, 11 July 1918 – 30 April 2009) was an English accountant and teacher. She is remembered as the first person to suggest the name Pluto for the dwarf planet discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930.
The morning of March 14, 1930, was a fairly ordinary one in the Oxford, England, home of 11-year-old Venetia Burney. The schoolgirl was eating breakfast in the dining room while her grandfather, Falconer Madan, paged through that day's edition of The Times of London.
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Oct 18, 2022 · On March 14, 1930, 11-year-old Venetia Burney and her family were eating breakfast at their home in Oxford, England, discussing the biggest news of the day: The discovery of a new planet.
