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Astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, who spotted the planet Pluto (1930), is looking for a nearer and even more elusive object: a second satellite of the earth. Since he refuses to give details and refers questioners to Army Ordnance-in Washington, it is fair to assume that the famous rocket-men who work for Army Ordnance are interested in the project. They may want merely to know what opposition from nature their rockets are apt to encounter when they climb deep into space. Or they may have a more ambitious interest: a nearby, natural satellite might be a more convenient base...
...image to be caught by ordinary photographic plates. Best way to catch it would be with a swinging telescopic camera turned to match its speed. Thousands of small areas in the sky must be examined and completion of such a search could take years. Presumably, that is what Dr. Tombaugh is doing...
...HONOR TO GREAT LOWELLS (TIME, JAN. 18) BUT PLANET PLUTO DISCOVERED BY FARM BOY CLYDE TOMBAUGH AT LOWELL OBSERVATORY, FLAGSTAFF, ARIZ...
Many mountings of homemade telescopes are pieced together from the gleanings of junk yards. Clyde Tombaugh, the amateur who discovered the planet Pluto, made a telescope mount from an old cream separator. Nevertheless, most homemade telescopes look pretty good; however much junk they contain, they must be precision instruments. Several, in fact, are now in use at professional observatories...
...named Will Hay was among the first to see the great white spot which erupted on the belly of Saturn three years ago (TIME, Aug. 21, 1933). The orbit of Pluto was theoretically predicted by professionals, but that outermost planet was actually discovered by an amateur named Clyde W. Tombaugh while working at Lowell Observatory in Arizona...