the.com/clyde tombaugh
farm kid with a homemade telescope found a planet and demoted himself into legend.
means the american astronomer who discovered pluto in 1930, using nothing but grit, star charts, and a blink comparator.
from born 1906 on a kansas farm, tombaugh built his own telescopes from junk parts because he couldn't afford college; his sketches of mars and jupiter impressed lowell observatory enough to hire him sight unseen, at 23, to search for planet x.
discovery agejust 24 years old
search methodcompared photos by rapid blinking, by hand
ashes destinationsome rode aboard new horizons to pluto
pluto demotedhe died before the 2006 reclassification