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Not as corny as Kansas in August. Clyde Tombaugh was born in Illinois in 1906 but he grew up in Kansas where his family bought a farm when he was a toddler. Perhaps his unpolluted view of the night sky …

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Let’s climb Mars Hill and discover Pluto! Okay, so Clyde Tombaugh beat me to that on both accounts and, while I can’t tell you the exact date he first ascended Mars Hill to join the staff at Lowell Observatory, I …

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Even before the day of my arrival in Tucson, new information and events began to conspire to provoke changes in the various daily itineraries I’d been planning (though not rigidly or meticulously) since early February. But change and flexibility are …