[Spam] [Vision2020] Kansas's Clyde Tombaugh Discovered Pluto, 1930!

[lfalen]

There is a nice article in a magazine called "Old New" on Clyde Tombaugh. It is either the last issue or the previous one.

Roger
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From: Tbertruss at aol.com
Date: Wed,  5 Oct 2005 13:49:21 -0700
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Spam] [Vision2020] Kansas's Clyde Tombaugh Discovered Pluto, 1930!

> 
> All:
> 
> I should not poke fun at Clyde Tombaugh regarding Pluto's data, when in my 
> previous post I made a lame attempt at humor at the expense of Clyde, for it 
> appears he was not merely a data gathering drone, but the discoverer of Pluto in 
> 1930, a fact the data I presented implied, but did not make perfectly clear, 
> at least to my silly little mind...
> 
> My sincerest apologies to the State of Kansas, the local Lions Club, Burdett 
> American Legion, and Burdett High School, Kansas:
> 
> Bette Jo Roberts, Sen. Kassebaum's representative, noted that the state motto 
> is "To the Stars through Difficulties."
> 
> Dr. Tombaugh's research, she said, "did take him to the stars through 
> difficulty."  "Dr. Tombaugh," she added, turning to the grinning scientist, "you 
> truly represent the spirit of Kansas."
> 
> Then it was Dr. Tombaugh's turn. He stole the show as he rightfully should 
> since it was the day his home town chose to honor him for a lifetime of study, 
> research and discovery that began on the family farm northwest of Burdett.
> 
> http://www.kansas.net/~crgraham/burdett.htm
> 
> http://skyways.lib.ks.us/history/tombaugh.html
> 
> "The more I know the less I know I know."  --Ted Moffett
>