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Clyde William Tombaugh (1906-1997) was an American astronomer, who discovered the planet Pluto in 1930.Short Biography:
Born in Streator, Illinois, Tombaugh became an assistant at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, in 1929, and photographed the sky in search of an undiscovered remote planet as predicted by the observatory's founder, Percival OLowell.
Tombaugh found Pluto on 18 February 1930, from plates taken three weeks earlier. He continued his search for new planets across the entire sky; his failure to find any placed strict limits on the possible existence of planets beyond Pluto.
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Clyde Tombaugh was a famous American astronomer.
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