CHRISTENED PLUTO
SCIENTISTS FINED A NAME FOR NEW PLANET
LINE OF GODS UNBROKEN NEW YORK, Sunday. A message from Flagstaff, Arizona, says the Lowell Observatory scientists have selected the name Pluto for the recently-discovered planet. One scientists said: We felt that the line of Roman gods after whom the other planets were named should not be broken. Because the discovery was so pre-eminently a triumph of reasoning our choice would have been Minerva, if that name had not been borne for many years by an asteroid. Furthermore. Pluto will lend itself easily to the monogram, “P.L.”—the late Dr. Percival Lowell’s initials.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 982, 27 May 1930, Page 9
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101CHRISTENED PLUTO Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 982, 27 May 1930, Page 9
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