Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Googled It 1.5

I really shouldnt be asking this one.
Venetia Burney a young British girl, aged 11 in 1930, who had lost her father at a young age and was living with her mother and brother at the home of her grandparents in Oxford. On 14th March, as the family was at breakfast, Venetia's grandfather read from the Times newspaper the announcement that Clyde Tombaugh, a young astronomer at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona, had identified an object. The report stated that a name had not yet been decided upon. Venetia piped up with, "Why not call it ______?"