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Boot Camp: Making a Sailor (Full Length Documentary - 2018)
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Who am I? ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Navy Trivia ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Who am I?......
Unlike most Sailors, I was famous before I decided to join the Navy (1942-1945). As a teen I was an amateur astronomer, and constructed my own telescope using a shaft scavenged from a 1910 Buick and grinding the lens and mirror by myself. I sketched the surfaces of Mars and Jupiter, using only my homemade instruments.
I wanted to attend college but after a 1927 hailstorm, I had to help on my father's farm. Seeking only advice, I sent a portfolio of my work to the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, but the observatory's director V.M. Slipher offered me a low-paying job as a photographic assistant. At Lowell, I discovered two comets, more than a dozen asteroids, and hundreds of previously unknown variable stars, and on 18 February 1930 I made my best-known scientific accomplishment, detecting what was then regarded as the ninth planet of our solar system, Pluto.
After four years at Lowell Observatory I entered the University of Kansas, while continuing to work at the observatory during the summers. I signed up for Astronomy 101 but was rejected on the grounds that my discovery of Pluto had already made me one of the world's most famous astronomers, and it would be absurd to accept me for such an introductory class.
During World War II, I entered the Navy and was assigned to teach astronomy, and after the war I worked at the White Sands Missile Range in Las Cruces, New Mexico, where I designed the Intercept Ground Optical Recorder super-camera. In my astronomical work I also saw several unidentified flying objects, and I was also among the first respected astronomers to call for a serious scientific inquiry into the phenomenon.
During my lifetime I was commonly referred to the only person to discover a planet in our solar system in the 20th Century, but nine years after my 1997 death the International Astronomic Union reclassified Pluto, demoting it to sub-planetary status.
Who am I?......
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.I am Clyde W. Tombaugh, Astronomer, the discoverer of the ex-planet Pluto, and a United States Navy Sailor!
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Permalink Reply by richsmom (Div 818 PIR 9/2/10) on
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Craig You are a wealth of information. I had no idea that Pluto was no longer a planet. You CAN teach an old dog new tricks.. Thanks again :o)
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Permalink Reply by Lydia (For B - The Sea is Ours) on
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Craig very kewl - Imma paste that on my next letter to my son..... great trivia he loves that stuff - and no I did not have that answer hahahah
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