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10 Important Dates in Pluto History: Media

Planet or not, Pluto has made its mark.

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Pluto, as seen by Hubble Telescope 2002–2003
M. Buie (Southwest Research Institute)/ESA/NASA
Lowell, Percival
Percival Lowell.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Pluto, discovery of
Pluto (denoted here by the arrows) was revealed to its discoverer, astronomer Clyde...
Lowell Observatory Photograph
Phair, Venetia
Childhood photograph of Venetia Phair.
NASA
Pluto; Charon
Pluto (centre) and Charon (lower left), as observed by the European Space Agency's...
From National Aeronautics and Space Administration/European Space Agency
Neptune
The spacecraft Voyager 2 flew for 12 years before it got close enough to Neptune...
NASA/JPL
Moons of Pluto
Pluto and three of its moons—Charon, Nix, and Hydra—as observed by the Hubble Space...
HST Pluto Companion Search/ESA/NASA
New Horizons liftoff
Liftoff of the New Horizons spacecraft aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral...
NASA/KSC
Ceres: bright spots
The dwarf planet Ceres in a photograph taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on February...
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DKLR/IDA
Pluto, image taken by New Horizons
NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute