🔬 Pluto is discovered (1930)
Where: Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
📅 On This Day: February 18
February 18, 1930: Pluto is discovered. On 18 February 1930, 24-year-old Clyde Tombaugh at Lowell Observatory in Arizona spotted a tiny moving dot in his photographs. It was Pluto! The name was suggested by an 11-year-old English girl, Venetia Burney.
✨ More events on this day
- 1838 🔬 Physicist Ernst Mach was born; he studied shock waves, and the Mach number, which tells how much faster than sound something moves, is named after him.
- 1871 💡 Harry Brearley was born in Sheffield, England; he invented stainless steel, the shiny metal that does not rust, used for spoons, forks and sinks.
- 1885 🎨 Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published in the United States, the story of a boy rafting down the Mississippi River.
🧠 Question of the day
Who suggested the name Pluto?
- A king
- A president
- An 11-year-old girl
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Answer: An 11-year-old girl
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What happened on February 18?
February 18, 1930: Pluto is discovered. It happened in Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA.
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Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto