Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh of the Lowell Observatory by comparing this photographic plate taken on the night of January 23, 1930 with two others taken in the same month. 

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Mark Avino

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NASM2013-00895

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Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum

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