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Venetia Burney (Venetia Katherine Douglas Phair, July 11, 1918- April 30,2009) was the young girl who suggested the name Pluto for the planet discovered by Clyde W. Tombaugh in 1930. At the time, she was 11 years old and lived in Oxford, England. Pluto is the name for the Roman God of the Underworld. (See link for a full explanation.)

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