TY  - BOOK
AU  - McGinty,Alice B.
AU  - Haidle,Elizabeth
TI  - The girl who named Pluto: the story of Venetia Burney 
SN  - 9781524768317
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Schwartz & Wade books
KW  - Burney, Venetia,
KW  - Pluto (Dwarf planet)
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Picture books
KW  - Illustrated works
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - When Venetia Burney's grandfather reads aloud from the newspaper about a new discovery--a "ninth major planet" that has yet to be named--her eleven-year-old mind starts whirring. She is studying the planets in school and loves Roman mythology. "It might be called Pluto," she says, thinking of the dark underworld. Grandfather loves the idea and contacts his friend at London's Royal Astronomical Society, who writes to scientists at the Lowell Observatory in Massachusetts, where Pluto was discovered. After a vote, the scientists agree unanimously: Pluto is the perfect name for the dark, cold planet
ER  -