[Mackie]

OK, Not really a birthday, more like an anniversary.....

Planet X - later renamed Pluto - was discovered 75 years ago today!

Oh, you didn't think I meant the bike company Planet X, did you???


Any other Monkeys into astronomy/space?

 

[RideND]

I love looking out at the stars or pictures of space, but I don't know too much about that stuff.

 

[N8 v2.0]

OK, Not really a birthday, more like an anniversary.....

Planet X - later renamed Pluto - was discovered 75 years ago today!

Oh, you didn't think I meant the bike company Planet X, did you???


Any other Monkeys into astronomy/space?

Dr. Tombaugh (discoverer of Pluto) was a friend of my parents back in the 60's and 70's. He was a frequent guest in my house as I was growing up in Las Cruces NM (Mesilla Park to be more exact). He worked on stuff at White Sands Missile Range as did my dad (who was a preverbal Rocket scientist).

He used to take us kids to his observatory and let us look at the stars and planets in the summers at NMSU.

 

[Mackie]

Dr. Tombaugh (discoverer of Pluto) was a friend of my parents back in the 60's and 70's. He was a frequent guest in my house as I was growing up in Las Cruces NM (Mesilla Park to be more exact). He worked on stuff at White Sands Missile Range as did my dad (who was a preverbal Rocket scientist).

He used to take us kids to his observatory and let us look at the stars and planets in the summers at NMSU.

That's seriously cool.
Closest I can get is that I've had a few friendly converstaions with Neil deGrasse Tyson, the head of the Hayden Planetarium, at the AMNH.

 

[Morryjg]

Dang! I thought you were talking bikes. Oh well.....here's a pic of mine just to make this a bike related thread

 

[Brian HCM#1]

Dr. Tombaugh (discoverer of Pluto) was a friend of my parents back in the 60's and 70's. He was a frequent guest in my house as I was growing up in Las Cruces NM (Mesilla Park to be more exact). He worked on stuff at White Sands Missile Range as did my dad (who was a preverbal Rocket scientist).

He used to take us kids to his observatory and let us look at the stars and planets in the summers at NMSU.

Thank you Cliff Clavin

 

[JRB]

Dang! I thought you were talking bikes. Oh well.....here's a pic of mine just to make this a bike related thread

Nice bikey.

 

[Stinky Boy]

I don't mind looking at the stars, I just don't like to see them when I crash!!

 

[Crash_Tested]

Thank you Cliff Clavin

Cliff Clavin would be Wumpus.