On this day in 1906 - February 4th - Clyde Tombaugh was born.

Tombaugh was the American astronomer who discovered Pluto. He died in 1997, and a portion of his ashes were on the New Horizons spacecraft that journeyed to Pluto.


Mona Evans
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