The location of Clyde Tombaugh's ashes and the memorial text on the container are in the first article.
Pluto Mission News
February 3, 2006
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Happy 100th Birthday, Clyde Tombaugh!
When the late American astronomer Clyde W. Tombaugh discovered Pluto 76 years ago this month, he opened the gateway to an unknown region of ancient, icy objects unlike any worlds in our solar system – and touched off a revolution in our understanding of Earth’s ever-expanding planetary neighborhood.
February 4, 2006, marks the 100th anniversary of Tombaugh’s birth – and New Horizons is speeding toward the planet he discovered, carrying a small amount of his ashes along with the dreams of all who, like this Kansas farm boy, gazed toward the heavens in the name of exploration and discovery.
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http://www.jhuapl.edu/newscenter/pressrele...2006/060203.asp.
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Clyde Tombaugh: A Daughter’s Perspective
Clyde Tombaugh received many awards and plaudits for his scientific and academic achievements, but Annette Tombaugh-Sitze says Pluto’s discoverer also should have won an award for being a great father.
“My dad gave me a wondrous, beautiful gift that speaks to me of him every night when I step outside my door,” Tombaugh-Sitze writes on the New Horizons Web site. “He gave me the sky.”
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http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/news_center/news/020306.htm.
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New Horizons is the first mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt of rocky, icy objects beyond. Principal Investigator Alan Stern, of the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), leads a mission team that includes the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Ball Aerospace Corporation, the Boeing Company, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Stanford University, KinetX, Inc., Lockheed Martin Corporation, University of Colorado, the U.S. Department of Energy, and a number of other firms, NASA centers and university partners. For more information on the mission, visit
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu.