At Age 11, Venetia Burney Named Pluto

Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
11/07/2022 3 min Temporada 4 Episodio 807

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Today in 1918, the birthday of Venetia Burney, who at age eleven, did something few people have done: she named a planet! Plus: on this day in 1992 the people of Ripon, Wisconsin made what was then the world’s largest chocolate chip cookie.
Venetia Burney Phair (1918-2009) (NASA)
Ripon's signature Cookie Daze has been discontinued, chamber cites closure of cookie factory (Ripon Press)
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