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The planet Pluto was officially named by 11-year-old
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1 May 1930: The Lowell Observatory announces that its favoured name for the discovery is Pluto
1 May 1930: The Lowell Observatory announces that its favoured name for the discovery is Pluto, suggested by 11-year-old Venetia Burney (pictured) from Oxford, UK, after the Roman god of the underworld. Venetia later becomes the namesake of a student-built dust counter on NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, which is currently on its way to Pluto.
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