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Podcast: Today In History with The Retrospectors
Episode: I Discovered Pluto
Description: Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto - 84 years after star-spotters first began their hunt for a ninth planet in our solar system, the elusive ‘Planet X’ on 18th February 1930.The 24-year-old made the groundbreaking discovery at the Lowell Observatory, Arizona, just one week into a task that had mired other researchers for decades. That said, it was later realised that Pluto had been spotted on previous occasions, yet astronomers had mistakenly overlooked its significance.In this episode, The Retrospectors reveal how the ‘planet’ came to be named by an 11-year-old British girl; ex...