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Venetia Katharine Douglas Burney was an English accountant and teacher. She is remembered as the first person to suggest the name Pluto for the dwarf planet discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930. At the time, she was 11 years old.

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Venetia Burney

British schoolteacher, namer of the dwarf planet Pluto

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About Venetia Burney

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Occupation: teacher

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United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Born

July 11, 1918

Died

April 30, 2009

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