
Discovery of Pluto at Flagstaff observatory continues to inspire 92 years later – Cronkite News
Photo: The Lawrence Lowell Telescope, gifted to Lowell Observatory by Abbott Lawrence Lowell Clyde Tombaugh sat in the Orpheum Theater that fateful night in February 1930, waiting for clouds to pass before the 24-year-old astronomer could return to Lowell Observatory to confirm his discovery of a ninth planet in our solar system. In that same