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Astro Bill
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posted 02-03-2006 05:13 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Astro Bill   Click Here to Email Astro Bill     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The 100th birth anniversary of Clyde Tombaugh (1906-1997), who discovered Pluto 76 years ago, will be celebrated on Feb. 4th as the Pluto/New Horizons mission is on its way to investigate Pluto.

The full story from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab is here:
http://www.jhuapl.edu/newscenter/pressreleases/2006/060203.asp

More information on Clyde Tombaugh can be found here:
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/tom0bio-1

[This message has been edited by Astro Bill (edited February 23, 2006).]

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