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China Daily | Updated: 2009-05-08 07:51

Planet namer passes away

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Venetia Phair (below), who was 11 years old when she suggested Pluto as the name of the newly discovered planet, has died at age 90, her family said.

Born Venetia Burney, she suggested the name to her grandfather at breakfast in 1930.

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