Venetia Burney
British schoolteacher, namer of the dwarf planet Pluto
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Updated 2026-06-19
Venetia Katharine Douglas Burney was an English accountant and teacher. She is remembered as the first person to suggest the name Pluto for the dwarf planet discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930. At the time, she was 11 years old.
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- 威妮夏·伯尼Low confidencewikipedia · zh.wikipedia.org
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