Although my early equipment was very modest, later I made my own and they were more powerful.
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By the time I was in sixth grade I could bound every country in the world from memory.
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| Birth: | 4th February, 1906 |
| Death: | 17th January, 1997 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Astronomer |
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Clyde William Tombaugh was born in Streator, Illinois. He was an American astronomer. Although he is best known for discovering the dwarf planet Pluto in 1930, the first object to be discovered in what would later be identified as the Kuiper belt, Tombaugh also discovered many asteroids; he also called for the serious scientific research of unidentified flying objects, or UFOs. Following his discovery of Pluto, Tombaugh earned bachelor's and master's degrees in astronomy from the University of Kansas in 1936 and 1938. He worked at White Sands Missile Range in the early 1950s, and taught astronomy at New Mexico State University from 1955 until his retirement in 1973.
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