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Mar 23, 2002 · At 24 and with no formal education in astronomy, Clyde William Tombaugh set out to find "Planet X." By S. Alan Stern | Published: March 23, 2002 | Last updated on May 18, 2023. The faint,...
Clyde William Tombaugh / ˈ t ɒ m b aʊ / (February 4, 1906 – January 17, 1997) was an American astronomer. He discovered the ninth planet Pluto in 1930, the first object to be discovered in what would later be identified as the Kuiper belt .
Feb 15, 2013 · She has a Bachelor’s degree in English and Astrophysics from Agnes Scott college and served as an intern at Sky & Telescope magazine. In her free time, she homeschools her four children.
Jan 17, 1997 · Clyde Tombaugh’s interest in astronomy began when he was a young boy, growing up on a farm in the Midwest, without access to observatories, universities, or even a large library. Unable to afford a college education, Tombaugh taught himself solid geometry and trigonometry and studied the stars through telescopes he built himself.
Feb 15, 2005 · In 1928 twenty two year old Clyde Tombaugh lived on a farm with his family near Burdett in western Kansas. The oldest of six children, Clyde was an excellent student in high school, but like most young people from rural America at the time had little prospects of continuing his education.
Learn how a young farm boy became the first person to spot Pluto, the most distant planet in our Solar System.
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May 18, 2015 · Clyde Tombaugh learned the value of hard work working on his family's Illinois farm. That persistence would define his search for Pluto at Lowell Observatory.
