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To: Nateman

Also the name of Disney’s dog.


9 posted on 11/16/2024 12:47:08 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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To: SkyDancer
Disney's Pluto was named after the planet was named, rather than vice versa, so the planet wasn't named after a cartoon character.

Some girl in England first suggested the name for the planet. That the first two letters were the initials of Percival Lowell, who started the search for the ninth planet, helped...the actual discoverer, Clyde Tombaugh, didn't get a lot of attention at first...just a farm boy from Kansas, not a member of one of the elite families of Boston.

16 posted on 11/16/2024 2:26:49 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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