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An Odd Fact From The Pluto Mission by RobinHez(m): 10:06am On Jul 17, 2015
The mission is carrying the ashes of Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered Pluto in 1930. Before dying in 1997, he requested that his ashes be sent to space. Nasa obliged, affixing a small container with his remains to the inside upper deck of the probe. It bears the inscription:
“Interred herein are remains of American Clyde W. Tombaugh, discoverer of Pluto and the solar system’s ‘third zone’, Adelle and Muron’s boy, Patricia’s husband, Annette and Alden’s father, astronomer, teacher, punster, and friend: Clyde W. Tombaugh (1906-1997).”
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jul/15/ten-facts-new-horizon-mission-pluto

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Re: An Odd Fact From The Pluto Mission by Khd95(m): 10:31am On Jul 17, 2015
undecided
Re: An Odd Fact From The Pluto Mission by Nobody: 11:20am On Jul 17, 2015
Really?
Was it on the probe that just passed Pluto?
Re: An Odd Fact From The Pluto Mission by RobinHez(m): 11:28am On Jul 17, 2015
Teempakguy:
Really? Was it on the probe that just passed Pluto?
Yeah!
Re: An Odd Fact From The Pluto Mission by Nobody: 11:30am On Jul 17, 2015
RobinHez:

Yeah!
shocked
Cool!

Lucky dude. cheesy
Re: An Odd Fact From The Pluto Mission by RobinHez(m): 11:33am On Jul 17, 2015
Teempakguy:
shocked Cool!
Lucky dude. cheesy
Lucky?? Ashes?? U've gotta be kidding cheesy
Re: An Odd Fact From The Pluto Mission by Nobody: 11:35am On Jul 17, 2015
RobinHez:

Lucky?? Ashes??
U've gotta be kidding cheesy
still, it's better than having your ashes kept in a cupboard nah. sad
Or thrown into the sea
Re: An Odd Fact From The Pluto Mission by RobinHez(m): 11:38am On Jul 17, 2015
Teempakguy:
still, it's better than having your ashes kept in a cupboard nah. sad
Or thrown into the sea
Looool...ashes is ashes -->Dead! cheesy
Re: An Odd Fact From The Pluto Mission by Slimzjoe(m): 12:34pm On Jul 17, 2015
Whether my Ash is thrown in Water, Pluto, Sambisa, it doesn't Make any Difference! Cos am still Dead!!! angry

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Re: An Odd Fact From The Pluto Mission by Blakjewelry(m): 12:39am On Jul 18, 2015
Then it can be said that he is the first man on Pluto both dead or alive
Re: An Odd Fact From The Pluto Mission by Nobody: 1:03am On Jul 18, 2015
Slimzjoe:
Whether my Ash is thrown in Water, Pluto, Sambisa, it doesn't Make any Difference! Cos am still Dead!!! angry
it does actually . . . maybe not to you . . . but to others.

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