Clyde Tombaugh
Astronomer
1906 – 1997
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Who was Clyde Tombaugh?
Clyde William Tombaugh was an American astronomer. Although he is best known for discovering the dwarf-planet Pluto in 1930, the first object to be discovered in what would later be identified as the Kuiper belt, Tombaugh also discovered many asteroids; he also called for the serious scientific research of unidentified flying objects, or "U.F.O.s".
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- Born
- Feb 4, 1906
Streator - Also known as
- Clyde W. Tombaugh
- Clyde William Tombaugh
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Patricia Edson Tombaugh
(1934 - 1997/01/17)
- Patricia Edson Tombaugh
- Children
- Religion
- Unitarian Universalism
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Kansas
- Northern Arizona University
- Employment
- New Mexico State University
- Lived in
- Flagstaff
- Las Cruces
- Died
- Jan 17, 1997
Las Cruces
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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