What planet did Percival Lowell discover?
(Trivial Pursuit question)
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Trivial Pursuit says "Pluto," but that is neither a planet, nor was it discovered by Percival Lowell.
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bostjan the adequate 🥉 It was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh over a decade after Lowell's death. At the time, Tombaugh worked at the observatory named after Lowell. Pluto is a Kupier belt object. Objects "discovered" by Lowell include "canals" on Mars and "spokes" on Venus, neither of which actually exist.
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