below) is the largest object found in orbit around the sun since the discovery of Neptune and its moon Triton in 1846. It is larger than Pluto, discovered .

Jul 20, 2011 – Astronomy | Hubble Space Telescope | This is pretty nifty: astronomers have discovered a fourth moon orbiting Pluto!The tiny chunk of ice .

Jan 1, 2010 – How did Clyde Tombaugh go from baling hay to finding Pluto? See family photos and hear his son Alden reflect.

Clyde William Tombaugh discovered Pluto by accident in 1930. Pluto is the 10th largest known body that orbits the sun. Pluto has three moo. view more.

Jul 20, 2011 – NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found a fourth moon around the dwarf planet, and a spacecraft is already on its way to help investigate.

On February 18, 1930, Clyde W. Tombaugh, an assistant at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, discovered Pluto. For decades, Pluto was considered .

Jun 3, 2011 – Astronomers build upon the works of others. This was definitely the case with Clyde Tombaugh and Percival Lowell, the men who discovered .

Jul 20, 2011 – A tiny fourth moon has been discovered orbiting distant dwarf planet Pluto, NASA has confirmed.

Jul 21, 2011 – The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a new moon circling Pluto. P4 , as it is currently called, is the smallest moon yet found .

Jul 21, 2011 – The distant dwarf planet Pluto until now hid a fourth moon. The U.S. space agency announced on Wednesday (20th), that the Hubble telescope .

Feb 18, 2011 – U.S. astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto, then considered to be the ninth planet in our solar system, in 1930. .

Jul 21, 2011 – Exciting times, Pluto fans: Nasa's New Directions team have discovered the tiny ex-planet has a new moon.

Pluto was discovered basically by chance by the self-taught astronomer Clyde Tombaugh in 1930. For historical reasons, Pluto is often called a planet; .

Who Discovered Pluto? The facts about Pluto's discovery are well known: back in 1908, Percival Lowell had postulated the theory that there was another .

Although Pluto was discovered in 1930, limited information on the distant object delayed a realistic understanding of its characteristics. Pluto is the .

2 answers - Apr 19, 2010Top answer: Pierce lowell started the search, but died before it was completed. They wee looking for a planet X that was causing perturbations in Neptune's orbit. .

Who discovered Pluto? Improve. In: Dwarf Planet Pluto [Edit categories] . Pluto was discovered in 1930 by the astronomer Clyde Tombaugh. .

Feb 18, 2010 – Pluto was discovered 80 years ago today, and astronomers are still arguing over what it is.

Jul 20, 2011 – WASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) -- Astronomers from NASA discovered a fourth moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto, the agency said Wednesday .

Jul 20, 2011 – Hubble imagery from June 28 and July 3 show the changing positions of Pluto's four known moons, including a newly discovered satellite .

Jul 20, 2011 – While searching for rings around the dwarf planet Pluto, NASA astronomers made an unintentional discovery -- Pluto has a fourth moon.

The best image we have of Pluto is the one above taken by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The smaller sphere is Pluto's moon, Charon. Pluto was found in .

Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh. Astronomers noticed that the orbits of Neptune and Uranus were being affected by the gravity of an unknown .

Jul 20, 2011 – The tiny new moon marks the fourth and smallest one yet found orbiting the dwarf planet.

Apr 19, 2011 – Michael Byers discussed his new novel about Pluto's discovery at the Kansas Union.

Nov 27, 2009 – You need a powerful backyard telescope to even see it as a dot, so it's not surprising that Pluto wasn't discovered until the modern age.

Pluto was discovered in 1930 by a fortunate accident. Calculations which later turned out to be in error had predicted a planet beyond Neptune, based on the .

Jul 20, 2011 – HOUSTON -- Distant and tiny Pluto has been hiding something from Earth: another moon. NASA announced Wednesday that the Hubble Space .

Jul 20, 2011 – A tiny, fourth moon has been discovered orbiting Pluto.

Feb 17, 2010 – Pluto was discovered in 1930, and the search for it was inspired by Percival Lowell, a man ridiculed for his belief in Martians.

Tombaugh was lucky to have discovered Pluto by accident because Pluto is very far away from the sun and moves very slowly. It takes about 248 years to .

Jul 20, 2011 – NASA said on Wednesday that astronomers have discovered a fourth moon orbiting the dwarf planet Pluto.

How was Pluto discovered? Pluto was discovered mathematically, as was Neptune. There were irregularities in the motion of Uranus and Neptune which early led .

This distance is the reason why it took several years before experts discovered that Pluto cannot be considered as a planet (the doubt regarding its status, .

Jul 22, 2011 – On July 20 NASA announced a discovery of a new moon orbiting Pluto. NASA astronomers were looking at the distant icy planet searching for .

In the late 20th and early 21st century, many objects similar to Pluto were discovered in the outer Solar System, notably the scattered disc object Eris in .

Oct 7, 2002 – It is half the size of Pluto and the biggest thing found in our Solar System for 72 years, but is it a planet?

Jul 20, 2011 – Astronomers have discovered a fourth moon orbiting the solar-system's distant dwarf-planet, Pluto. The speck of rock was spotted by the .

Jump to Discovery of Pluto‎: The name Pluto was officially adopted on May 1, 1930. The photographic plates that were used to discover Pluto at apparent .

Jun 22, 2011 – Who Discovered Pluto? Pluto (Paperback, 48 Pages) Pluto: From Planet to Dwarf by Elaine Landau. Get it from Amazon. Due to the fact that the .

Jul 21, 2011 – WASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) — Astronomers from NASA discovered a fourth moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto, the agency said Wednesday. .

Pluto, once believed to be the ninth planet, is discovered at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, by astronomer Clyde W. Tombaugh.

Jul 20, 2011 – A tiny new moon has been discovered around Pluto, the fourth and smallest one yet found orbiting the dwarf planet, photos from the Hubble .

Jul 20, 2011 – Quite by accident, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a fourth moon orbiting the (dwarf) planet Pluto. .

Jan 24, 1999 – Some astronomers are starting to take a skeptical view of little Pluto, wondering if what Clyde Tombaugh really discovered was a large comet .

Apr 6, 2011 – Astronomers have found a new world bigger than Pluto in the outer reaches of the solar system.

3 days ago – Five years after Pluto was stripped of its planet status, astronomers have discovered yet another moon in orbit around it, bringing its .

Jul 20, 2011 – Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope announced that they had discovered a new moon, only 8 to 21 miles in diameter, circling Pluto.

Nov 27, 2009 – Five of the planets are visible with the unaided eye and .

Jul 20, 2011 – Pluto may have lost its planet status, but it has an entourage of moons that could prove an obstacle course for visiting spacecraft.

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