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Near the center of town, on a mesa peppered with ponderosa pines, sits Lowell Observatory, where Clyde Tombaugh discovered the tiny world in 1930. About seven kilometers across town lies the U.S ...
For that's the day my father, Clyde Tombaugh, a farmboy-turned-astronomer, discovered Pluto, becoming the first American to find a planet. (Or a dwarf planet, as it's now officially known.) ...
New research suggests that Sputnik Planitia, also called Tombaugh Regio, is the result of a massive smash with another planetary body a little over 400 miles in diameter, roughly the size of ...
Respected American astronomer Clyde W Tombaugh poured cold water on the consensus that most UFO sightings were recorded by publicity-seekers, when, two years after Roswell, Tombaugh recorded ...
It was October 2001, and a leaky Lindley Hall roof and Lawrence light pollution had rendered the 1929 telescope — which had been refurbished by Pluto discoverer Clyde Tombaugh — nearly useless.
Clyde Tombaugh at Lovell Observatory had taken two images of the sky about eight or nine days apart, and turned them into something of a flip book - going back and forth between them showed that ...
Astronomers, maybe more than anyone, appreciate what an island of perfection our Earth is. Our orbit may put us at a perfect distance from the sun for life to flourish, but it is too small to ...