36018 February 1930: Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto
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On 18 February 1930, the young astronomer Clyde Tombaugh found Pluto by comparing photographs of the night sky at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona. The name was suggested by an 11-year-old girl in England, Venetia Burney. Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006.