Clyde William Tombaugh

County:
LaSalle 
Picture:
Images Courtesy of Charles Stanley
Location:
The marker is located in Streator, on the Anderson Fields Golf Course, facing west toward Bloomington St. (IL Rte. 23) at approximately 2319 N. To reach the marker park on the south side of the Kroger supermarket parking lot at 2399 N. Bloomington St.
Latitude:
41.1475
Longitude:
-88.8355
Dedication Date:
01/01/1985
Dedication By:
Streatorland Historical Society and The Illinois State Historical Society
Marker Description:

Clyde William Tombaugh was born in Streator in 1906. As a young boy he was very interested in the universe and built his own telescope. He moved to Kansas to study astronomy at the state university. He became an assistant at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona at the age of 23. A year later in 1930, while working from reckonings made by Percival Lowell in 1914, Tombaugh discovered the most distant planet in our solar system, which he named Pluto.

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