02. How did Pluto get its name? (A K2S Question)

From The Space Library

Pluto's name was suggested by eleven-year-old Venetia Burney from Oxford, England, shortly after the planet's discovery in 1930. The name has a double significance. Pluto is the Greek god of the underworld, an appropriate name for a world at the dark outer edge of the solar system. Also, its first two letters are the initials of Percival Lowell.

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Answer provided by Dr. John Spencer, Ph.D.

Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer

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