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Pluto was discovered on February 13, 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh. Clyde was only 24 years old when he made this discovery. The discovery was made at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona while looking for a trans-Neptunian planet (planet x).

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