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One thing science and human progress accomplished on this date.
1930
Comparing photographs of the night sky at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona, 24-year-old Clyde Tombaugh spotted a faint dot that shifted between images. It was Pluto, the first world found in the distant zone beyond Neptune.
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