Flagstaff, AZ February 15, 2020

I <3 Pluto festival!

Ok, its the whole reason I came back to Flagstaff.  They had all there regular presentations scheduled but they also had a bunch of special Pluto centric events and presentations.  I did watched a number of them, including going behind the scenes and walking through Clyde Tombaughs apartment (the guy that discovered Pluto as a 24 year old unpaid intern).  Some of the other presentations were modified to put more emphasas on Pluto.  And at 5pm were snacks and beer.  A local brewery made a specialty Pluto Porter beer.  
There was Pluto/Charon art in the gift shop and they did a pretty nice job of putting together this little shindig.  At 7pm, the party moved to the Cline Library at Northern Arizona University and we listen to a bunch of special guest speakers.  The son of Clyde Tombaugh, Allen Tombaugh.  Jim and Char Christy, Jim discovered the moon of Pluto and name it Char-on after his wife.  Alan Stern, a member of the team working on the New Horizons project.  It was a good group of people and I'm really glad I came back to Flagstaff for it.


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