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15 de jul. de 2015 · The morning of March 14, 1930, was a fairly ordinary one in the Oxford home of 11-year-old Venetia Burney. The schoolgirl was eating breakfast in the dining room while her grandfather, Falconer ...
Venetia Burney. Venetia Katharine Douglas Burney (na huwelijk Phair, 11 juli 1918 - 30 april 2009) werd door Clyde Tombaugh erkend als de eerste persoon die, op 11-jarige leeftijd, de naam Pluto suggereerde voor de planeet die hij in 1930 ontdekte. Zij woonde op dat moment in Oxford, waar haar vader en grootvader aan de Universiteit werkten.
Venetia Burney commented to the BBC in 2006. After all, everyone loves an underdog. The morning of March 14, 1930, was a fairly ordinary one in the Oxford, England, home of 11-year-old Venetia ...
When Venetia Burney's grandfather reads aloud from the newspaper about a new discovery--a ninth major planet that has yet to be named--her eleven-year-old mind starts whirring. She is studying the planets in school and loves Roman mythology. It might be called Pluto, she says, thinking of the dark underworld.
Venetia Phair (evlilik öncesi soyadı Burney; 11 Temmuz 1918 - 30 Nisan 2009, Banstead ), Clyde Tombaugh 'ın 18 Şubat 1930 yılında keşfini yaptığı Kuiper kuşağında bulunan Plüton gezegenine (daha sonra 2006'da cüce gezegen olarak sınıflandırılmıştır. [1]) Plüton adını öneren kişidir. Öneriyi yaptığı esnada Oxford ...
Venetia is the only female to have named a planet. In 2006, Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet, since it didn’t meet all the requirements of a planet. That same year, in Venetia’s honor, a student-built science instrument on the New Horizons mission to Pluto was renamed the Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter, or “Venetia” for short.
ヴァニーシア・キャサリン・ダグラス・フェア (旧姓 バーニー) （ Venetia Katharine Douglas Phair ( née Burney ), 1918年7月11日 - 2009年4月30日）は、 クライド・トンボー によって 1930年 に発見された惑星 [1] に Pluto （ 冥王星 ）と名づけることを提案した女性。. 当時 ...
