Venetia Burney

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Venetia Burney was the English schoolgirl who, in 1930, proposed the name "Pluto" for the newly discovered dwarf planet.

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Venetia Burney canonical 4
Venetia Katharine Douglas Burney 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf English person
human
student
ageAtTimeOfProposal 11
birthName Venetia Katharine Douglas Burney
linked to: Venetia Burney
countryOfCitizenship England
United Kingdom
dateOfBirth 1918-07-11
dateOfDeath 2009-04-30
describedBySource astronomical histories of the discovery of Pluto
obituaries in major British newspapers in 2009
educatedAt Downe House School
Newnham College, Cambridge
ethnicGroup English
fieldOfWork economics
hasFamilyName Burney
Phair
hasGivenName Venetia
hasHonor asteroid 6235 Burney named after her
instrument Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter on the New Horizons spacecraft named after her
inspiredBy Pluto, Roman god of the underworld
Roman mythology
linked to: Roman religion
knownFor proposing the name Pluto for the newly discovered trans-Neptunian object in 1930
languageOfWorkOrName English
marriedName Venetia Phair
name Venetia Burney
notableEvent her suggestion was forwarded to astronomers at Lowell Observatory
suggested the name Pluto at breakfast to her grandfather Falconer Madan
occupation accountant
teacher
placeOfBirth England
Oxford
Oxfordshire
placeOfDeath Banstead
England
Surrey
proposedName Pluto
proposedNameFor dwarf planet Pluto
linked to: Pluto
proposedNameYear 1930
relative Charles Fox Burney
Falconer Madan
Henry Madan
residence Epsom
Surrey
sexOrGender female
spouse Edward Maxwell Phair

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SDC namedAfter Venetia Burney
Student Dust Counter namedAfter Venetia Burney
Venetia Burney name Venetia Burney
Venetia Burney birthName Venetia Katharine Douglas Burney
linked to: Venetia Burney