Clyde Tombaugh - Wikipedia
网页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 .
Clyde Tombaugh | Discoverer of Pluto, American Astronomer
网页Clyde Tombaugh was an American astronomer who discovered Pluto in 1930 after a systematic search for a ninth planet instigated by the predictions of other astronomers. He also discovered several clusters of stars and galaxies, studied the apparent distribution of extragalactic nebulae, and made.
Clyde Tombaugh: Astronomer Who Discovered Pluto | Space
网页2013年2月15日 · Unimpressed with store-bought telescopes, Tombaugh constructed his first telescope at the age of 20, grinding the mirrors himself. Over the course of his life, he would build...
Clyde Tombaugh - Academy of Achievement
网页1997年1月17日 · Clyde Tombaugh, a 24-year-old student and the discoverer of the planet Pluto, looks over a Newtonian reflecting telescope he built in 1928. The mount for this telescope was built from part of the crankshaft from a 1910 Buick and discarded parts from a cream separator.
Who Was Clyde Tombaugh? - Lowell Observatory
网页2021年2月16日 · He was inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame in 1980. He died on January 17, 1997, in Las Cruces, New Mexico, at age 90. A small portion of his ashes was placed aboard the New Horizons spacecraft, which was launched on January 19, 2006 and flew past Pluto on July 14, 2015.
Clyde Tombaugh - NASA
网页Clyde Tombaugh photographed 65% of the sky and spent thousands of hours examining photographs of the night sky. After ten months of very hard work, sometimes working through the night in an unheated dome, Clyde Tombaugh discovered an object he …
February 18, 1930: Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto - EarthSky
网页On February 18, 1930, Tombaugh compared photos of a single star field – taken six days apart a few weeks earlier – and noticed an object was moving against the backdrop of stars. It was a ...
The man who found Pluto | Astronomy.com
网页2002年3月23日 · The man who found Pluto. 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,...
About Clyde Tombaugh - New Horizons
网页In rural Kansas, Clyde Tombaugh, a young farm boy and amateur astronomer built his own nine-inch telescope with a hand-crafted mirror and discarded parts from farm equipment. With his telescope he viewed the skies and made sketches of details on the planets.
Clyde Tombaugh - NASA
网页At that time, eight planets were known in our solar system. Astronomers had been looking for a ninth planet since 1905. In February of 1930, Clyde Tombaugh found proof of a new object in our solar system. He named the object Pluto. From its discovery until 2006, Pluto was called a planet.