Week 1 Assignment 6
Clyde Tombaugh was born on Feb. 4, 1906 on a farm near Streator, Illinois. Clyde Tombaugh was the man who discovered the elusive former planet Pluto, when he was just 24 years old using a photographic telescope from the 1930’s. He compared the feat of finding Pluto to “finding a needle in a haystack.” Now just recently the International Astronomical Union voted on a new definition of a planet, and Pluto did not make the cut, and is now considered a dwarf planet along with Ceres and the newly discovered 2003 UB313.
