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Girl Who Named Pluto, At 11, Dies At 90

latimes.com — Venetia Phair, who was 11 years old when she suggested Pluto as the name of the newly discovered planet, has died in England. She was 90.

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  • sphigel, on 05/13/2009, -3/+488A person should never have to outlive their planet.
  • VarelseSoul, on 05/13/2009, -36/+396***** you, Man. Pluto will always be a planet to me.
  • IvenomI, on 05/13/2009, -109/+335Pluto isn't a planet.
  • kingofinwood, on 05/13/2009, -29/+232Pluto will always be a planet as far as I'm concerned.
  • CoD4, on 05/13/2009, -8/+176She had a heart attack when they told her
  • JanusTheDoorman, on 05/13/2009, -2/+132She obviously had nothing left to live for after being stripped of her glory.

    Damn you, Neil DeGrasse Tyson!
  • KSUdesigner, on 05/13/2009, -5/+119Sadly her planet died first. Wait, did they decide it's a planet again?
  • Kuci06, on 05/13/2009, -11/+115Its a dog, amirite?
  • Nboy514, on 05/13/2009, -9/+87My friend died trying to be a planet!
  • filolif, on 05/13/2009, -5/+61If a new planet was discovered today, I have no doubt that it would be named Colbert.
  • omar199, on 05/13/2009, -1/+55http://www.shof.msrcsites.co.uk/pluto.jpg
  • amorrise, on 05/13/2009, -3/+53You hear about Pluto? That's messed up right?
  • inactive, on 05/13/2009, -1/+47No, NASA will just ignore the results..
  • Bloodwine, on 05/13/2009, -14/+49It was a planet when she named it. It has only recently had its classification downgraded.
  • 408train, on 05/13/2009, -1/+35im glad you have a firm grasp of the situation
  • daonlyfreez, on 05/13/2009, -0/+33Excellent sir, madam.

    This could be added to her Wikipedia entry: "First and probably only person ever to outlive their planet".
  • LeviTheSmith, on 05/13/2009, -1/+34Except Pluto didn't ***** the USA for 8 years.
  • gincarnated, on 05/13/2009, -1/+31Damn, both Pluto and her husband taken from her in 06. Tough year.
  • inactive, on 05/13/2009, -4/+33Tell me more good sir.
  • pegothejerk, on 05/13/2009, -1/+30We should name an extra-solar planet Venetia. It even sounds good.
  • IvenomI, on 05/13/2009, -5/+33Word son.
  • miffelplix, on 05/13/2009, -3/+30She died of a broken heart.
  • evetsleep, on 05/13/2009, -6/+33It's a space station!
  • Bloodwine, on 05/13/2009, -0/+24Well, planet or not, we still call it Pluto, so she still has that.
  • prium, on 05/13/2009, -0/+24Only if it was an online poll.
  • Tanktunker, on 05/13/2009, -0/+22verbing nouns wierds language.
  • Coolmasta89, on 05/13/2009, -2/+23cool story bro
  • oo7evan, on 05/13/2009, -7/+28Science has no room for nostalgic misinterpretation.

    But creationism does.
  • cptcliche, on 05/13/2009, -5/+25Aye, fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live... at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin' to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take OUR PLUTO!
  • Wargasmic, on 05/13/2009, -3/+21ORLY?
  • cstaylor, on 11/12/2009, -2/+20Back when I was your age...
  • seedsofwar, on 05/13/2009, -2/+20remember when 11 year olds were intelligent and educated enough to suggest such an appropriate name?
  • SlayerXZeta, on 05/13/2009, -0/+18Tell that to the Sailor Moon and the Sailor Scouts
  • DefaultGen, on 05/13/2009, -0/+17Giving the darkest, coldest, most distant planet the name of the god of the underworld sure was random.
  • Games4Life, on 05/13/2009, -2/+19You shut your whore mouth. Pluto will always be a planet to me ;_;
  • PixelMagic, on 05/13/2009, -0/+17Dude, check out his bitchin' vest.

    http://peculiarvelocity.files.wordpress.com/2009/0 ...

  • forevernomad, on 05/13/2009, -0/+17We could always just rename Venus, it's just a really big advertisement anyway, like Mars.
  • digitalArtform, on 05/13/2009, -1/+17I have living relatives who were alive before Pluto had a name. Pretty wild.
  • SnakeLemma, on 05/13/2009, -2/+17she outlived a planet!
  • drlha, on 05/13/2009, -1/+16Come back here when you've named any celestial body.
  • GREEDOnvrFIRED, on 05/13/2009, -3/+17@Bloodwine We already have books that stick with tradition and "grandfather in" outdated conceptions. They are called bibles.
  • humanedited, on 05/13/2009, -2/+15Pluto is a disco ball
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pluto.jpg
  • Mike17102, on 05/13/2009, -3/+16See what happened? You ***** took her planet away and it killed her! It might have taken her a while to go, but she was already dead on the inside.

    And way to make all the little kids cry too!
  • Wargasmic, on 05/13/2009, -0/+13It's not like you can suddenly discover that it isn't a planet. The planet status is entirely arbitrary...
  • SkippyDoorknob, on 05/13/2009, -2/+15"carnage" is not a verb.
  • MrFisty, on 05/14/2009, -0/+12It's most adults who can't be trusted with names. If we named Pluto now it'd probably be called AT&T Long Distance Planet.
  • inactive, on 05/13/2009, -2/+14hahahaha
  • AlkalineEarth, on 05/13/2009, -1/+13When I was your age, Pluto was a planet.
  • deslock, on 05/13/2009, -1/+12So she got to see the birth and death of a planet.

    She was old.
  • StayCee, on 05/13/2009, -2/+13Start treating Pluto like a meteor, and it will start acting like one!
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