When the late American astronomer Clyde W. Tombaugh discovered planet Pluto 76 years ago this month, he opened the gateway to an unknown region of ancient, icy objects unlike any worlds in our solar ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL -- Come Tuesday, Clyde Tombaugh will pass within 7,800 miles of the icy world he discovered 85 years ago. His ashes are flying on NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on humanity's first ...
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Feb. 4, 1906: The birth of Clyde Tombaugh
Born Feb. 4, 1906, Clyde Tombaugh grew up on farms in Illinois and Kansas. Tombaugh couldn't afford to attend college – though he eventually completed his bachelor's (1936) and master's (1939) degree ...
LAS CRUCES – It’s shaping up as another big year for our favorite dwarf planet and its discoverer, Clyde Tombaugh. A year after the New Horizons probe, with Tombaugh’s ashes on board, made its closest ...
Ninety years ago today, Clyde Tombaugh, a young astronomer working at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, discovered Pluto. In doing so he unknowingly opened the door to the vast “third zone” of ...
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