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Pluto Discoveries 95th Anniversary

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The tiny planet-not-planet that could: Pluto was discovered 95 years ago today

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Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh , an astronomer at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff , Arizona .

It was named after the Roman god of the underworld, Hades .

The planet's existence had been suspected more than 30 years before by astronomer Percival Lowell .

Pluto was demoted to the status of a dwarf planet by the International Astronomical Union in 2006 .

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