Naming Pluto

Naming Pluto

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Naming Pluto is a UK 13minute documentary about Venetia Burney Phair, who named the planet Pluto in 1930, aged 11years. The film also witnesses Mrs.Phair seeing the newly demoted planet for the very first time in 2007, 77 years after she gave Pluto its name.

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International Year of Astronomy 2009

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