Venetia Burney

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British schoolteacher, namer of the dwarf planet Pluto

United KingdomLived 1918 to 2009 · aged 90

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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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United Kingdom

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deceased

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Lived 1918 to 2009 · aged 90

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