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AVI Audio  |  1998-10-23  |  928.4 KB  |  1 channel  |  22,050 sample rate  |  1 minute, 24 seconds
Transcription: It is now clear that the discovery was not fortuitous. Tombaugh's work was accurate and meticulous. The discovery was made only a year after the start of the search, but there could be no doubt that Tombaugh would have identified Pluto sooner or later. The search for other distant planets continued, and by 1943 the search from Flagstaff had covered the whole of the sky. Each square millimeter of each plate was examined with the blink microscope. There were 338 pairs of photographs with a total area of 75 square metres. 90 million stars were measured. During his 7,000 hours of work with the bli ...

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