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Clyde Tombaugh (Streator, 4 de fevereiro de 1906 — Las Cruces, 17 de janeiro de 1997) [1] foi um astrônomo estado-unidense, responsável pela descoberta do planeta anão Plutão, em 1930.
Clyde William Tombaugh / ˈ t ɒ m b aʊ / (February 4, 1906 – January 17, 1997) was an American astronomer. He discovered the ninth planet Pluto in 1930, the first object to be discovered in what would later be identified as the Kuiper belt .
Clyde Tombaugh was an American astronomer who discovered Pluto in 1930 after a systematic search for a ninth planet instigated by the predictions of other astronomers. He also discovered several clusters of stars and galaxies, studied the apparent distribution of extragalactic nebulae, and made.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
15 de fev. de 2013 · An avid amateur astronomer. Unimpressed with store-bought telescopes, Tombaugh constructed his first telescope at the age of 20, grinding the mirrors himself. Over the course of his life, he...
Clyde Tombaugh. Clyde Tombaugh was born in 1906 to an Illinois farm family. As a boy he developed an interest in stargazing that was encouraged by both his father and his uncle. The first Clyde ever looked through belonged to his uncle. The first telescope he ever owned was bought from Sears.
18 de fev. de 2020 · Foi neste dia, em 1930, que o astrônomo estadunidense Clyde Tombaugh conseguiu reunir os dados necessários para provar a existência de um planeta além de Netuno. Acontece que isso não teria sido possível sem os cálculos de uma mulher que é pouco lembrada nessa história.
18 de fev. de 2022 · On February 18, 1930, Tombaugh compared photos of a single star field – taken six days apart a few weeks earlier – and noticed an object was moving against the backdrop of stars. It was a ...
