Shorts 2: Naming Pluto

Running time: 13 mins

Part of Shorts Program 2: Document: The World.

In 1930, Venetia Burney gave the planet Pluto its name. At the time she was an 11-year old schoolgirl living with her mother and grandparents in Oxford, England.

This film looks back at the extraordinary chain of events in astronomical history and witnesses Venetia's first viewing of Pluto on the eve of her 89th birthday, 77 years after its discovery.