We Gave It a Name, So It Became Ours
Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh, a 24-year-old farm boy from Kansas working at the Lowell Observatory. An 11-year-old British girl named Venetia Burney suggested the name. Her grandfather passed it along. The International Astronomical Union accepted it. And just like that, a frozen rock four billion miles away had a name, and the name made it real.
