"The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet" (Norton. 194 pages, $23.95), By Neil deGrasse Tyson: If there is an advocacy group for little guys in the universe, it must have been ...
On Feb. 18, 1930, 24-year-old Clyde Tombaugh discovered a faint, remote object on photographic plates he had taken Jan. 23 and Jan. 29 from Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz. Astronomers credited ...