This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/22/2013
Exciting account by Clyde Tombaugh of the hours leading up to his discovery of Pluto. Typed 8.5'' x 11'' document signed ''Clyde W. Tombaugh / 26 Nov. 1990'' reads in part, ''In February 1930, after struggling through...Taurus...I skipped [to] eastern Gemini where the stars were less thickly packed...I suddenly spied an...object...'That's it!' I exclaimed to myself...Any possibility of the phenomenon being a pair of variable stars was now ruled out...This seemed to be it.'' Tombaugh crosses out an errant ''a'' in description. Near fine condition.