Finding Pluto: the hunt for Planet X

Kevin Orrman-Rossiter; Alice Gorman

Finding Pluto: the hunt for Planet X

Kevin Orrman-Rossiter, Alice Gorman

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Abstract

Our solar system’s shadowy ninth (dwarf) planet was the subject of furious speculation and a frantic search for almost a century before it was finally discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930. And remarkably, Pluto’s reality was deduced using a heady array of reasoning, observation and no small amount of imagination.

Original language	English
Number of pages	5
Specialist publication	The Conversation
Publication status	Published - 17 Jul 2015

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Astronomy
Pluto
New Horizons
Planetary Exploration

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