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

[Carl Westberg]

If Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto, who discovered Goofy?                    
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                                             
                          Carl Westberg Jr.


>From: Tbertruss at aol.com
>To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: [Vision2020] Kansas's Clyde Tombaugh Discovered Pluto, 1930!
>Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 16:42:29 EDT
>
>
>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


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