TIL that Pluto was named by an 11-year-old English schoolgirl. In 1930, Venetia Burney suggested the name after hearing about the newly discovered ninth planet. Her grandfather passed it to Lowell Observatory, where it was officially adopted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venetia_Burney
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