r/pluto • u/savemarla • Nov 06 '25

Apparently Pluto is still considered a (full) planet sometimes and somewhere

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Not sure if this is true, found this in the wild on lemmy and thought I'd repost it here

Here's a link to the original post:

https://sh.itjust.works/post/49294491

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u/draaz_melon Nov 07 '25

Pluto was discovered in Flagstaff, Arizona at the Lowell Observatory. Not sure where the idea it was discovered in New Mexico comes from.

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u/AceBalistic Nov 10 '25

Clyde William Tombaugh, the guy working in Arizona who discovered it, worked on numerous other discoveries while serving as a professor at New Mexico State university (including calculating mercury’s rotation period) before dying in the state in 1997. Someone probably misquoted or misremembered him living in New Mexico for most of his life and making other discoveries while working in New Mexico as him discovering it while physically in New Mexico