Editing Clyde Tombaugh (section)

==In popular culture==
* Clyde Tombaugh's fame for his discovery of Pluto was enough for him to qualify as a contestant on the October 24, 1956, episode of the game show ''[[I've Got A Secret]]''.
* The 2006 release ''[[The Avalanche (Sufjan Stevens album)|The Avalanche]]'' by musical artist [[Sufjan Stevens]] contains an instrumental track titled "For Clyde Tombaugh".<ref>Dahlen, C. (July 11, 2006). ''Sufjan Stevens The Avalanche'' [Review of the album ''The Avalanche'', by S. Stevens]. Pitchfork. https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/9195-the-avalanche/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210316142625/http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/9195-the-avalanche/ |date=March 16, 2021 }}</ref>
* The ninth episode of the fourth season of [[Fargo (TV series)|''Fargo'']] featured a visit to a memorial marking the site of Tombaugh's boyhood home.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Schager |first1=Nick |title=Fargo recap: The future is now! |url=https://ew.com/tv/recaps/fargo-season-4-episode-9/ |website=EW.com |publisher=Entertainment Weekly |access-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20201117053149/https://ew.com/tv/recaps/fargo-season-4-episode-8/ |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |date=November 16, 2020 |quote=The Discoverer of Pluto plaque begins, "On this spot in 1906 stood the boyhood home of Dr. Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of the planet Pluto..." |url-status=live}}</ref>
* Robert Heinlein's 1958 juvenile science fiction novel ''[[Have Space Suit – Will Travel]]'' features a scientific base on Earth's moon called Tombaugh Station.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Cowan |first1=M.E. |title=A Heinlein Concordance: Have Space Suit – Will Travel |url=https://www.heinleinsociety.org/concordance/books/hs_hc.htm |website=HeinleinSociety.org |publisher=The Heinlein Society |access-date=January 15, 2021 |quote="Tombaugh Station – Lunar base named for the discoverer of Pluto." |archive-date=April 27, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170427085501/http://www.heinleinsociety.org/concordance/books/hs_hc.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> When the hero arrives on Pluto, he reflects:
{{blockquote
|text=I had never been much interested in Pluto—too few facts and too much speculation, too far away and not desirable real estate.  By comparison the Moon was a choice residential suburb.  Professor Tombaugh (the one the station was named for) was working on a giant electronic telescope to photograph it, under a Guggenheim grant, but he had a special interest; he discovered Pluto years before I was born.
|author=[[Robert A. Heinlein]]
|title=Have Space Suit – Will Travel
|source=Ace paperback, p. 113
}}