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Venetia Burney
July 11, 1918 – April 30, 2009
British schoolteacher, namer of the dwarf planet Pluto
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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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- Birthday · July 11
- Anniversary · April 30
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