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From: fbr@utastro.UUCP (Frank Ray)
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Subject: Re: StarDate: March 14 Naming Pluto
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Date: Tue, 19-Mar-85 10:21:02 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 19 10:21:02 1985
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> <munch, munch>
> 
> I once heard that another reason Pluto was accepted
> was because the first two letters are the initials of the person who
> discovered the ninth planet.  Is this true ?  If it is, what is his name ?
> -- 
> 
> ==> Ephrayim J. Naiman @ AT&T Information Systems Laboratories (201) 576-6259
> Paths: [ihnp4, allegra, ahuta, maxvax, cbosgd, lzmi, ...]!pegasus!naiman

        Percival Lowell, astronomer, 1855-1916

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