Venetia Burney
✶July 11, 1918
†April 30, 2009
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✶July 11, 1918
†April 30, 2009
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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.
British schoolteacher, namer of the dwarf planet Pluto
Biography from the article Venetia Burney on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.