PLANETARY DISCOVERY HEAVENLY ASTRONOMER FOUND PLUTO 60 YEARS AGO.(Living)

Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) | December 18, 1990 | Copyright

Byline: Hilary Appelman Associated Press

Sixty years after he discovered the planet Pluto spinning 3 billion miles from Earth, Clyde Tombaugh can't keep his hands off telescopes.

At age 84, Tombaugh is supposed to be retired, resting on his laurels as one of only four people ever to have discovered a planet.

Instead, the snowy-haired astronomer still is crisscrossing the country, lecturing about Pluto to raise funds for post-doctoral astronomy students at New Mexico State University, where he taught for 12 years.

And he's still building ...

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