Herbert Hall Turner
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Herbert Hall Turner was a British astronomer and seismologist.
Herbert Hall Turner
Turner at the Fourth Conference International Union for Cooperation in Solar Research at Mount Wilson Observatory, 1910
Venetia Burney
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Venetia Katharine Douglas Burney was an English accountant and teacher. She is remembered as the first person to suggest the name Pluto for the dwarf planet discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930. At th
Herbert Hall Turner
…A few months before Turner's death in 1930, the Lowell Observatory announced the discovery of a new planet, and an eleven-year-old Oxford schoolgirl, Venetia Burney, proposed the name Pluto for it to her grandfather Falconer Madan, who was retired from the Bodleian Library. Madan passed the name to Turner, who…
Venetia Burney aged 11
Pluto in True Color High Res
Charon in True Color High Res