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Clyde William Tombaugh (February 4, 1906 – January 17, 1997) was an American astronomer. Tombaugh is best known for discovering the dwarf planet Pluto in 1930, but also discovered many asteroids, and called for serious scientific research of unidentified flying objects. From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License  jgautographs.com unknown Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:15:07 GM Authentic hand signed vintage '500th Anniversary Birth of Nicolaus Copernicus' commemorative first day cover from 1973 hand signed by legendary American astronomer, . Clyde Tombaugh. .  lightbucket.wordpress.com lightbucket hu, 21 Feb 2008 12:37:48 GM When New Horizons, the first spacecraft to explore Pluto, was launched on a cold afternoon in January 2006, it carried a little piece of the planet's discoverer, . Clyde Tombaugh. , with it. No, I don't mean that metaphorically. ...  decadasdeoro.com teomon Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:51:00 GM El 18 de febrero de 1930 el astronomo estadounidense . Clyde Tombaugh. descubre el planeta Pluton. El 13 de marzo de 1930 el astronomo estadounidense . Clyde Tombaugh. anuncia el descubrimiento del planeta Pluton ubicado mas alla de Neptuno. ... From Google Blog Search: "Clyde Tombaugh"  news.google.com MyWebTimes.com He painted the mural of Clyde William Tombaugh and Pluto in Streator and the Blind Pig bar logo in Ottawa. After planning, preparation and painting, ... and more » From Google News Search: "Clyde Tombaugh"  centauri-dreams.org 250px x 175px | 30.30kB [source page] suggesting resurfacing processes may be taking place The paper submitted to the Astrophysical Journal is The Surface of 2003EL61 in the Near Infrared now available at the arXiv site And finally a nice Plutonian note from the Lawrence Journal World reminds us that Clyde Tombaugh will be honored this Saturday at the University of Kansas January 4 would have been the KU  areavoices.com 500px x 339px | 117.50kB [source page] Clyde s flying to Pluto A young Clyde Tombaugh holds one of the glass plates he used while photographing the sky in search of Planet X at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff Photo NASA From Yahoo Image Search: "Clyde Tombaugh" |
