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As to the question: Clyde William Tombaugh was following the work to find a large masive planet to account for the "wobble" in some of the outer planets orbits and was working at the Percival Lowell Observatory at that end when he discovered the small planet that would be known as Pluto. It's thought that Tombaugh named the planet after Lowell (that the PL stands for Percival Lowell whose career was somewhat in ruins in his later life after publically stating that mars was cris-rossed with "canals").
Good to see that astronomers can give props to their own.
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quote:Originally posted by Wraith: Sedna? Sounds like an Eastern European car manufacturer.
That's Skoda
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quote:Originally posted by Ritten: Well, it won't get finished unless you start it....
First there were the dinosaurs, but they became big and fat, then an asteroid came and wiped them out, then the Arabs came and made oil...
And, Prince Charles started wearing all of Lady Di's clothes. I couldn't believe it, he took her best summer dress out of the closet, and put it on, and went to town!
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quote:Originally posted by Ritten: Well, it won't get finished unless you start it....
First there were the dinosaurs, but they became big and fat, then an asteroid came and wiped them out, then the Arabs came and made oil...
LOL - is that the gay guy from the "Flying High"/"Airplane" (or what ever it was called in the US) movies?)
Yes, played by Stephen Stucker - It was called "Airplane!" in the US, but this specific quote came from "Airplane II: The Sequel". Right now, I'm wondering why IMDB lists him in a movie in 1989, but he died in 1986?
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Andrew gets the penny: it was an Airplane II refrence. Stephen Stucker and lloyd Bridges were great in that.
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Aqua Boar. Without the A and the B and the space, of course.
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He gets the penny because I ddint know that was the rest of the quote.
Fine.
A shiny internet penny for you as well for your novel use of the rare "angry emoticon" whereas most Flarites would have opted for the "rolleyes".
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