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
Venetia Burney aged 11
Pluto in True Color High Res
Charon in True Color High Res
Pluto
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Pluto is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the ninth-largest and tenth-most-massive known object to directly orbit the Sun. It is the largest known
Venetia Burney
…married name Phair, 11 July 1918 – 30 April 2009) 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 the time, she was 11 years old. Venetia Burney grew up in North Oxford. She was the…
Clyde Tombaugh, in Kansas
Sputnik Planitia is covered with churning nitrogen ice "cells" that are geologically young and turning over due to convection.
A multispectral Visual Imaging Camera image of Pluto in enhanced color to bring out differences in surface composition
Regions where water ice has been detected (blue regions)