Clyde Tombaugh: Discoverer of Planet Pluto
- ISBN-10
- 0816511489
- ISBN-13
- 9780816511488
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography / General
- Pages
- 211
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1991
- Publisher
- University of Arizona Press
- Author
- David H. Levy
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