English accountant and teacher, suggested name of Pluto (1918–2009)
Venetia Burney
Venetia Burney aged 11
Born
Venetia Katharine Douglas Burney
(1918-07-11)11 July 1918
Died
30 April 2009(2009-04-30) (aged 90)
Banstead, England
Known for
Naming Pluto
Spouse
Edward Maxwell Phair
(m. 1947–2006)
Children
Patrick Phair
Parents
Charles Fox Burney
Ethel Wordsworth Madan
Relatives
Falconer Madan, grandfather
Venetia Katharine Douglas Burney (married name Phair, 11 July 1918 – 30 April 2009) was an English accountant and teacher. She is remembered as the first person to suggest the name Pluto for the dwarf planet discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930. At the time, she was 11 years old.
Venetia Katharine Douglas Burney (married name Phair, 11 July 1918 – 30 April 2009) was an English accountant and teacher. She is remembered as the first...
weight. One of the science packages (a dust counter) is named after VenetiaBurney, who, as a child, suggested the name "Pluto" after its discovery. The...
The VenetiaBurney Student Dust Counter (VBSDC) is a scientific instrument aboard the uncrewed New Horizons space probe that is designed to detect dust...
audio transducers. Piezoelectric panels made of PVDF are used on the VenetiaBurney Student Dust Counter, a scientific instrument of the New Horizons space...
among the letters and telegrams sent to Lowell. The first had been from VenetiaBurney (1918–2009), an eleven-year-old schoolgirl in Oxford, England, who was...
with diameters above 90 km. Observations made by NASA's New Horizons VenetiaBurney Student Dust Counter showed "higher than model-predicted dust fluxes"...
Fright. The granddaughter of Henry Madan's brother Falconer Madan was VenetiaBurney, who first suggested the name of Pluto. In 1959, Walter Scott Houston...
and politician, 21st Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2014) 1918 – VenetiaBurney, English educator, who named Pluto (d. 2009) 1918 – Roy Krenkel, American...
staff, it was first proposed by an 11-year-old English schoolgirl, VenetiaBurney. In its favor was that the Pluto of Roman mythology was able to render...
(Jupiter Orbiter), Cassini (Saturn orbiter), and New Horizons (see VenetiaBurney Student Dust Counter). Collections of review articles on various aspects...
rotation period of 15.5 hours. It was named for VenetiaBurney, who first proposed Pluto's name. Burney is a non-family asteroid of the main belt's background...
of John Flamsteed, the first Astronomer Royal of England) 6235 Burney (VenetiaBurney, suggested the name "Pluto" for the planet discovered by Clyde Tombaugh...
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in today's Kuiper belt generate dust that has been observed by the VenetiaBurney Student Dust Counter on the New Horizons space probe. By the action...
discovery of a new planet, and an eleven-year-old Oxford schoolgirl, VenetiaBurney, proposed the name Pluto for it to her grandfather Falconer Madan, who...
dancer, TV presenter Jonathan Greening, footballer Joseph Marcell, actor VenetiaBurney, who gave the minor planet Pluto its name Thomas Colman Dibdin, 19th-century...
Horizons VenetiaBurney Student Dust Counter, one of seven major instruments on New Horizons VenetiaBurney, New Horizons instrument honorific, Burney proposed...
Henry Brinton, NASA administrator instrumental in Pluto studies — BurneyVenetiaBurney, who proposed the name of Pluto 2017-08-08 · WGPSN Coradini Angioletta...
Charles Fox Burney (4 November 1868 – 15 April 1925) was biblical scholar at Oxford University, England. Charles was the son of Charles Burney, Paymaster...
detectors susceptible to noise. Because of this, the PVDF detectors on the VenetiaBurney Student Dust Counter also needed shielded reference detectors in order...
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