Naming Pluto

Director: Ginita Jimenez
Year: 2008
Running time: 12:39
Dialogue: English, Spanish
Country: England
Format: Color / DV Cam
Genre: Documentary – Historical, Portrait
Competition: Science Documentary
Session: DOC1
Screenings: CERN Globe: Tuesday 16 18:00     Forum Meyrin: Friday 19 12:20
Naming Pluto explores the story of Venetia Burney, the English 11 year old who named the planet Pluto in 1930. In 2007 on her 89th birthday Venetia sees Pluto for the very first time through a telescope, 77 years after its discovery.

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