For thousands of years their had been seven "wanderers" (the Greek meaning of planetos) in the sky: the Sun, Moon, Mercury Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn; it is from this retinue that our lucky seven and the seven days in the week are derived. Then in 1781 the astronomer William Herschel discovered a planet beyond Saturn; at first he thought it was a comet, but after a few decades of squabbling over a name it came to be known as Uranus.

In 1930, Clyde Tombaugh, at the age of 24, discovered the planet Pluto, that was for 75 years to be the ninth planet of our solar system. 

This planet Pluto not planet Pluto information page and the entire website are excerpted from You and the Universe, a handmade, individualized fine art book on astrology, mythology and astronomy through which the recipient's complete astrological reading is woven.