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What satellite discovered Pluto?

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No satellite did. Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh, who found it using a ground-based telescope in 1930, long before we launched the first satellites.

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Pluto was not discovered by satellites. It was discovered using a telescope on Earth.

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