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Clyde Tombaugh Pluto DS

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Clyde Tombaugh Pluto DS
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Exciting account by Clyde Tombaugh of the hours leading up to his discovery of Pluto. Typed 8.5'' x 11'' document signed ''Clyde W. Tombaugh / 26 Nov. 1990'' reads in part, ''In February 1930, after struggling through…Taurus…I skipped [to] eastern Gemini where the stars were less thickly packed…I suddenly spied an…object…'That's it!' I exclaimed to myself…Any possibility of the phenomenon being a pair of variable stars was now ruled out…This seemed to be it.'' Tombaugh crosses out an errant ''a'' in description. Near fine condition.