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...wealthy astronomer Percival Lowell built his own observatory in Arizona to try to detect the life he believed existed on Mars. He never found it, but in 1930 Clyde Tombaugh, then an assistant at Lowell Observatory and now a professor emeritus at New Mexico State University, found Pluto. It was the last planet that would be discovered until the 1990s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEARCHING FOR OTHER WORLDS | 2/5/1996 | See Source »

Most of all I despised the "traitors" among us, Jews who were trying to ingratiate themselves with "the goyim" through a fawning and potentially fatal moderation. If the Jewish people was indeed an endangered species, in a world as inhospitable to them as Pluto is to humans, then anyone within the fold who threatened to undermine the Jews' resolve to withstand eternal siege was an enemy far more dangerous than the foe waiting outside the gates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A MURDER FORESHADOWED | 11/20/1995 | See Source »

...Took detailed photos of Pluto and its moon Charon allowing astronomers to measure their diameters precisely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nobody's Calling It a Boondoggle Now | 7/4/1994 | See Source »

...infrastructure of this country is falling apart, but we think it's more important to spend our money exploring Pluto, so we know what the Martians will look like when they land," he said...

Author: By Chris Terrio, | Title: Sharpton Calls For Activism | 2/10/1994 | See Source »

...space-station project from 1,300 to 330 and laying plans to reduce shuttle operating costs by 25% over the next three years. He also wants smaller, cheaper and more efficient spacecraft. For example, Goldin has asked NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to develop a deep- space mission to Pluto for no more than $150 million, barely one third the cost of the Voyager probes to the outer planets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Will Nasa Do for an Encore? | 12/20/1993 | See Source »

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