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Discoverer Of Pluto

 
Kansas State Historical Marker
Pawnee County
 
KS, USA
 
 
      Burdett is the boyhood home of Dr. Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of the planet Pluto. Born in Illinois in 1906, he grew up on a farm northwest of here and was graduated from Burdett High School in 1925.

    K-156, Pawnee County
    West edge of Burdett