Phair, woman who named Pluto, dead at 90

Monday, May 11, 2009 - 12:14 in Paleontology & Archaeology

BANSTEAD, England, May 11 (UPI) -- Venetia Phair, who earned scientific notoriety at the age of 11 by suggesting the name Pluto for a newly discovered planet, has died in Britain, her son says.

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