7.05.2015

And faraway former planets

Pluto, the Rodney Dangerfield of the solar system, is ready for its close-up | New York Post

"Clyde Tombaugh was a Kansas farm boy, hired by the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz., on the basis of some planetary sketches he produced with the aid of a homemade telescope — and because he’d work cheap.…

"His father’s parting words were: ‘Clyde, make yourself useful, and beware of easy women.’"

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