When Venetia Phair was 11-years-old she named a distant planet (now categorized as a dwarf planet), which we now know as Pluto.
On March 14, 1930, the day newspapers reported that the long-suspected “trans-Neptunian body” had been photographed for the first time, she proposed to her well-connected grandfather that it be named Pluto, after the Roman god of the underworld.
And so it was.
Phair died on April 30, 2009 in her home. She was 90-years-old.
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