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The ashes of Clyde Tombaugh, the astronomer who discovered Pluto in 1930, are aboard the New Horizons spacecraft. After his death in 1997, a small container with his ashes was attached to the spacecraft as a way to honor his role in the exploration of the distant dwarf planet.

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