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By Martin Weil / The Bulletin
May 13, 2009
WASHINGTON — Venetia Burney Phair, who as a child in England was credited with providing the name for Pluto, long regarded as the ninth planet, died April 30 at her home in Epsom, a town south of London. She was 90.
No cause of death was reported.
In a 2006 interview with NASA, Phair....
