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Clyde Tombaugh’s 100th Birthday

Posted by Davin Flateau on 30 Jan 2006 at 5:59 pm.
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As the New Horizons probe launched last week hurtles toward it’s 2015 flyby of Pluto, it’s cosmic serendipity that we celebrate the centennial of the planet’s discoverer, Kansan Clyde Tombaugh. He will be honored at 8pm this Saturday, February 4 in KU’s Alderson Auditorium. Special guest speaker and New Horizon’s Principal Investigator Alan […]

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