In 1930, Dr. Clyde William Tombaugh, pictured above, was credited with discovering the dwarf planet Pluto. On January 19, 2006, nine years after his death in 1997, NASA launched the New Horizons, a robotic spacecraft which is currently on its' way to Pluto. The craft, which is expected to fly by Pluto on July 14, 2015, is carrying several non-scientific articles of symbolic relevance including some of Clyde Tombaugh's ashes.
A small circular cylinder containing some of Dr. Tombaugh's ashes is pictured attached to the inside of the New Horizons spacecraft.
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