Clyde Tombaugh

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Clyde William Tombaugh (February 4, 1906-January 17, 1997), an American astronomer, was a student at the University of Clyde William Tombaugh (February 4, 1906 – January 17, 1997).

He discovered Pluto in 1930, the first object to be discovered in what would later be described as the Kuiper belt.

Pluto was considered a planet at the time of discovery, but later classified as a dwarf planet in 2006.

Many asteroids were also found by Tombaugh.

He called for serious scientific study of unidentified flying objects, or UFOs.

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Life and career

Tombaugh, the son of Muron Dealvo Tombaugh, a farmer, and his wife Adella Pearl Chritton, were born in St. Benedict, Illinois. When Tombaugh's family moved to Burdett, Kansas, in 1922, he was dissatisfied with college, especially after a hail storm destroyed his family's farm crops. He made several telescopes with lenses and mirrors by himself starting in 1926. Tombaugh, who used only a pick and shovel, dug a pit 24 feet long, 8 feet wide, to better test his telescope mirrors. This made for a steady air temperature, without air currents, and was also used by the family as a root cellar and emergency shelter. He sent drawings of Jupiter and Mars to the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, which gave him a job. Tombaugh served there from 1929 to 1945.

Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930 at Lowell. Tombaugh earned a bachelor's and master's degree in astronomy from the University of Kansas in 1936 and 1938, respectively. At Northern Arizona University, he taught naval navigation during World War II. He served at White Sands Missile Range in the early 1950s and taught astronomy at New Mexico State University from 1955 to 1973. He was inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame in 1980. He received the Golden Plate Award of Achievement from the American Academy of Achievement in 1991, which was presented to Awards Council member Glenn T. Seaborg.

The asteroid 1604 Tombaugh, who was discovered in 1931, is named after him. Hundreds of asteroids have been discovered since 1929, many as a result of his quest for Pluto and other celestial objects. After his wife, children, and grandchildren, Tombaugh named some of them. In 1931, the Royal Astronomical Society awarded him the Jackson-Gwilt Medal.

Direct visual observations of astronomy have never been more accurate. Tombaugh, one of two outstanding living experienced visual observers as talented as Perpetual Lowell or Giovanni Schiaparelli, was a retired Robert S. Richardson's 1965 film "Observational Tombaugh." Out of the Shadow: A Book by Tombaugh and Patrick Moore in 1980. Pluto's Out of the Shadow: The Planet Pluto. Robert Staehle, a JPL scientist who requested permission to visit his planet in August 1992, called Tombaugh. "I told him he was invited to it," Tombaugh later remembered, "but he's going to go a long, cold trip." The call culminated in the launch of the New Horizons space probe to Pluto in 2006. The "Heart of Pluto" was named after Pluto's passage by New Horizons on July 14, 2015.

Tombaugh died in Las Cruces, New Mexico, on January 17, 1997, at the age of 90, and he was cremated. A small amount of his ashes were sent aboard the New Horizons spacecraft. The container bears the following words: "Clyde W. Tombaugh, the discoverer of Pluto and the Solar System's 'third zone,' is included in the text." Adelle and Muron's baby, Patricia's husband, Annette and Alden's father, astronomer, coach, punster, and friend: Clyde W. Tombaugh (1906-1997). Tombaugh was survived by his wife, Patricia (1912-2012), and their children, Annette and Alden.

Tombaugh was a committed Unitarian Universalist, and he and his wife helped found the Unitarian Universalist Church of Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Clyde Tombaugh had five siblings. Clayton Kershaw's great-uncle is the niece of his younger brother, Robert Kershaw, the Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher.

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