Pluto Discovered 96 Years Ago Today

Today is International Pluto Day, marking the discovery of planet Pluto by Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory 96 years ago, on February 18, 1930. It is a day to celebrate all things Pluto, a planet whose understanding has eluded people for nearly a century. When first discovered, Pluto’s planethood was questioned because telescopes of the time could not resolve it into a disk. Later, when it…