t rat a tiny and extremelyindistinct  of additional fuzziness. Suc, t it took seven yearsfor anyone to spot tly confirm its existence.

    One nice touc Cy’s discovery  it aff, for it  Pluto  place. t seminal event in astronomy o t of tronomer Percival Lo Boston families (tty about Boston being to Cabots, o God), endoory t bears  is most indeliblyremembered for  Mars  by industrious Martians forpurposes of conveying er from polar regions to t productive lands nearer tor.

    Loion  ted, someune,an undiscovered nint, dubbed Planet X. Loies ected in ts of Uranus and Neptune, and devoted t years of o trying tofind t ain  tunately, least partly exed by , and to abeyance e. ly as a ing attention a), tory directors decided to resume to t end ombaugh.

    tombaugraining as an astronomer, but  and ute,and after a year’s patient searcted Pluto, a faint point of ligtery firmament. It  all triking tions on ence of a planet beyond Neptuneproved to be compreombaug once t tulated, but any reservations  ter of t  aside in tattended almost any big neory in t easily excited age. t American-discovered planet, and no one o be distracted by t t it a distant icy dot. It o at least partly because t tters made amonogram from Loials. Lo order, and tombaugten, except among planetary astronomers,o revere him.

    A feronomers continue to t X out ten times ter, but so far out as to be invisible to us. (Ittle sunlig it o reflect.) t it be a conventional planet like Jupiter or Saturn—it’s muc