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Clyde Tombaugh

• id: PER-005
• lifespan: 1906–1997
• known_for: discoverer of Pluto
• missions: New Horizons
• confidence: believed-correct

Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930 at Lowell Observatory in Arizona, painstakingly comparing photographic plates as a 24-year-old observer. When New Horizons flew past Pluto in 2015, it carried a small portion of his ashes, and the bright heart-shaped region it revealed was placed within a feature named Tombaugh Regio in his honor.