Why was Clyde Tombaugh searching beyond Neptune?

Answer 1

Clyde discovered Pluto with a device called a "blink comparator." In its time, it was top-of-the-line technology, circa 1930.

Full-sky or All-sky surveys were taken from time to time on old-fashioned photographic plates back in the day. Most stars move imperceptibly over several human lifetimes, because they are so far away; but planets, they are much closer to Earth. Even distant Pluto moved enough to be captured by 1930's technology.

The blink comparator focused the image of two different photo plates taken at different times, but of the same region of the sky, rapidly back and forth. Any planet, or "wandering star" from the Greek language, would manifest itself as movement in the rapidly changing views of the comparator. Easy enough for a human to detect.

Especially one so talented as Clyde Tombaugh. And that is how he found it.

Answer 2

your question does not make sense... if you were to ask the question why was the planet was named pluto, then it was named after a greek god of the underworld and pluto used to be a part of the under world. pluto the god was was killed after the underworld was corrupted... and pluto was forced out of the under world. that would answer that question.

if you were asking why planets were called 'planets' well i guess god named them because of their shape. a circle is very plain, if you take the 'i' out of plain you get plan, and since they are some smaller planets they have the ets, just like piglETS, that would answer that question.

Answer 3

Clyde Tombaugh's project had been passed down to him by Percival Lowell, who had observed that the orbit of Uranus deviated slightly from what was expected. Lowell believed that this deviation was due to the gravitational influence of a planet beyond Neptune. The existence of Neptune had also been predicted based on deviations in the orbit of Uranus. Tombaugh's discovery of Pluto, long believed to be Planet X, during this search was largely coincidental. Pluto's mass was later found to be far too low to account for the discrepancy in Uranus' orbit, which was later found, instead, to be the result of a small error in the calculated mass of Neptune.

Answer 4

Pluto was the Roman god of the underworld. Keep in mind that the Romans didn't discover it. It was discovered around the time of Mickey Mouse. His dog is named after the planet.

Answer 5

He was trying to search for the so called Planet X (now known as Pluto) which was predicted by Percival Lowell and William Pickering

Answer 6

After the underworld king Hades