How it got its name Pluto?

Answer 1

Venetia Katherine Douglas Phair, born in 1919, was the person to suggest 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 an alternate name for Hades, the Greek god of the underworld.)

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Pluto was named after the roman god, Pluto. he was the god of dardness and of the underworld.
Pluto got its name from an 11-year-old Venetia Burney of Oxford, England, who suggested to her grandfather that the new world get its name from the Roman god of the underworld. Her grandfather then passed the name on to Lowell Observatory.

Answer 2

The name Pluto was suggested by an 11-year-old girl named Venetia Burney in 1930. She proposed the name inspired by the Roman god of the underworld, due to Pluto's distance from the sun and its mysterious nature. The name was officially adopted by astronomers and has been used ever since.

Answer 3

Pluto got the name after the Roman God, Hades. God of the Underworld and the Darkness. Pluto is kind of dark depending on the backside that isn't facing the sun.

Answer 4

"Pluto" is another name for "Hades"-- the God of the Underworld--, which an eleven year old girl by the name of Venetia Burney thought appropriate for a presumably dark and cold planet.

Answer 5

Actually the name Pluto was proposed by a an eleven-year-old schoolgirl in Oxford, England named Venetia Burney.