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To: lbryce
It's either a planet or a slightly-burned cheese pizza.

National Geographic has Pluto on its cover, but only a short article on Pluto near the end.

It says that the girl in England who first suggested the name Pluto was the niece of the man who came up with the names Phobos and Deimos for the two moons of Mars (he wasn't the man who discovered the moons). And that Mickey's dog wasn't named Pluto until a year after the planet was.

8 posted on 07/06/2015 7:01:24 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus
Mickey's dog wasn't named Pluto until a year after the planet was.

That didn't stop Hillary Clinton from being named after Sir Edmund Hillary.

11 posted on 07/06/2015 7:11:33 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: Verginius Rufus

Was a member of the Astronomical Society of Las Cruses, NM. Got to meet Clyde Tombaugh several times as he was a member also, sitting next to him a a meeting it was funny he had the largest Walt Disney Pluto watch on!


16 posted on 07/06/2015 7:55:00 PM PDT by Empireoftheatom48 (God help the Republic but will he?)
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To: Verginius Rufus
It's either a planet or a slightly-burned cheese pizza.

It looks like naan to me. Yum.

24 posted on 07/06/2015 8:40:48 PM PDT by NutCrackerBoy
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