In 1930, 11-year-old Venetia Phair suggested that the newly discovered planet beyond Neptune be named Pluto. On April 30, she died in her home in Banstead, England at the age of 90.

Venetia Phair named a planet when she was 11 years old, but now her planet is no longer a "planet." Back in 1930, Phair was eating breakfast with her father when he read a story in the Times of London about a new planet that had been discovered. Venetia, who was "well versed in Greek and Roman mythology" (gee, how many…