Sedona News – Speakers Diane Phelps Budden and Kevin Schindler will present “Tiny Pluto has a Big Heart” at the Sedona Heritage Museum on Thursday, March 27, at 10 am. The presentation will take place in the Museum’s historic Apple Shed and is free to attend.
The discovery of Pluto in 1930 at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff brought Arizona and the observatory to the public’s attention, and they fell in love with this little planet. Diane will discuss Clyde W. Tombaugh’s early years when he developed a passion for astronomy. Kevin will share Arizona’s ongoing connection to Pluto research and how the New Horizons mission revealed breathtaking features of Pluto’s surface. When Pluto was downgraded to a dwarf planet there was a large group of planetary scientists and members of the public who loudly disagreed. In Arizona, we made Pluto our state planet.
Diane Phelps Budden is a Sedona based author, whose most recent book is Needle in a Haystack: How Clyde W. Tombaugh Found an Awesome New World. Kevin Schindler is the historian at Lowell Observatory.
This presentation is part of the Museum’s popular Sedona Stories speaker series.
The Sedona Historical Society operates the Sedona Heritage Museum located in Jordan Historical Park, 735 Jordan Road in Uptown Sedona, Arizona. Open daily 11 am – 3 pm. For more information call 928-282-7038 or visit www.sedonamuseum.org.