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To the stars through difficulties

“To the Stars Through Difficulties” is the state motto of Kansas, the place where Clyde Tombaugh the discoverer of Pluto grew up. But it is impossible to talk about Tombaugh without speaking of Percival Lowell who first noticed that there was an anonymous ninth planet beyond Neptune, and he called it Planet X. These two ingenious and analytical men who never worked physically together were honorable and true to the work and effort put forth to find Pluto (Planet X). The motto of Kansas is an appropriate title for each mans journey in finding the ninth planet. Furthermore it seemed to be worth it for the scientific visionary’s; for the one who started the puzzle dieing hopeless, and for the one who solved it, triumphantly.
In 1894 Dr. Percival Lowell was a mathematician, a businessman, and an amateur astronomer, he was one of many astronomers searching the clear skies to observe planets and stars. He came from Massachusetts and a well to do family. When he became an astrono...

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