Thursday 18 February 2021

On This Day In 1930: Clyde W. Tombaugh Discovered Dwarf Planet Named Pluto

 


Pluto is primarily made of ice & rock.

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On This Day In 1930, Clyde W. Tombaugh discovered Pluto after using an astrograph to document a particular section of the sky for many nights.

In 2006, Pluto was no longer identified as a planet but rather a dwarf planet inside of the Kuiper belt.


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