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Tags: Venetia Burney View |
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Venetia Katharine Douglas Phair (n�e Burney) (11 July 1918 - 30 April 2009) was the first person to suggest the name Pluto for the object discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930. At the time, she was 11 years old and lived in Oxford, England.
Birth Name: Venetia Burney
Date of birth: 1918-07-11
Date of death: 2009-04-30
Death Location: Banstead
Known For: Naming Pluto
Spouse: marriageEdward Maxwell Phair (1908-2006)19472006
Children: Patrick
Parents: Charles Fox Burney,Ethel Wordsworth Madan
Relatives: Falconer Madan, grandfather
source: wikipedia.org