What is Venetia Burney?
{{Infobox person | name = Venetia Burney | image = File:Photo of Venetia Burney, aged 11, c. 1929.jpg | image_size = | caption = Eleven-year-old Venetia | alt = | birth_name = Venetia Katharine Douglas Burney | birth_date = {{Birth date|1918|7|11|df=y}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death date and age|2009|4|30|1918|7|11|df=y}} | death_place = [[Banstead]], [[England]], [[United Kingdom|UK]] | known_for = Naming [[Pluto]] | spouse = {{marriage|Edward Maxwell Phair|1947|2006}} | children = Patrick Phair | parents = {{plainlist | * [[Charles Fox Burney]] * Ethel Wordsworth Madan }} | relatives = [[Falconer Madan]], grandfather }} '''Venetia Burney''' (1918–2009) is known for suggesting name the [[Pluto]] for newly discovered [[celestial body]] in 1930 by [[Clyde Tombaugh]]. At that time, Venetia Burney was an 11 year old schoolgirl living in [[Oxford]], [[England]]. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/transcript_pluto_naming_podcast.html|title=Transcript: The Girl Who Named Pluto|first=Allison|last=Hazen|date=2 June 2015|website=NASA|access-date=19 October 2009|archive-date=24 February 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110224202623/http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/transcript_pluto_naming_podcast.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4596246.stm|title=The girl who named a planet|date=13 January 2006|publisher=|via=news.bbc.co.uk}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/11/world/europe/11phair.html|title=Venetia Phair Dies at 90; as a Girl, She Named Pluto|first=William|last=Grimes|date=10 May 2009|publisher=|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Burney, Venetia}} [[Category:1918 births]] [[Category:2009 deaths]] [[Category:People from Oxfordshire]]