Clyde Tombaugh Links
Information about Clyde Tombaugh
- Clyde Tombaugh and Burdett, Kansas
- A web site about Clyde Tombaugh's link to the small town of Burdett, Kansas, near which Tombaugh built homemade telescopes on a farm and looked at the heavens.
- Clyde Tombaugh Highway Marker
- A highway marker honoring Tombaugh and his discovery located on US Highway 156 in Burdett, Kansas.
- Pluto Express Clyde Tombaugh Page
- Information about Tombaugh from the Pluto Express Web site at JPL.
- The Struggles to Find the Ninth Planet
- Clyde Tombaugh himself describes the search for Pluto.
- Kids Celebrate Clyde Tombaugh's 90th Birthday
- Children from across the United States and overseas sent their brithday greeting to Clyde Tombaugh for his 90th birthday in 1996, as part of the "Live from the HST" project.
- Astronomy Picture of the Day: 1997 February 4
- A picture of and information about Clyde Tombaugh on the 91st anniversary of his birth from Astronomy Picture of the Day.
- ICSTARS Clyde Tombaugh Page
- Pictures and an article about the life of CLyde Tombaugh from the Web site for ICSTARS, an amateur astronomy webzine.
- Astronomy
Magazine: Clyde Tombaugh
- An obituary for Clyde Tombaugh
from Astronomy magazine.
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