Burial sites come in many shapes, colors, and locations, but few are as unique as Clyde Tombaugh’s last resting place. Tombaugh died in 1997, and in 2006, an ounce of his cremated remains were placed in an aluminum capsule aboard New Horizons, a space probe that is part of NASA’s mission to Pluto.
Tombaugh was the first person to ever get a glimpse of Pluto in 1930. When he was 24 years old, working at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, he discovered a planetary body that was then dubbed “Planet X.” His discovery completely reshaped scientists’ understanding of the solar system.
