February 18, 2020
Falling backwards (A tiny late valentine to Pluto)
I learned from a Twitter friend this morning that today is the 90th anniversary of the discovery of Pluto by researcher Clyde Tombaugh! (I meant to make this post for Valentine’s Day, but this is better.) Only recently did I learn that the now-famous heart-shaped region of Pluto, the Tombaugh Regio, is named for him, because somewhat coincidentally, I’ve become obsessed with this song this week:
But the even neater coincidence is this song, whose lyrics conclude
“The heaviness that I hold in my heart belongs to gravity.
The heaviness that I hold in my heart’s been crushing me”
…was released in November of 2013.
The photographs revealing the heart of Pluto, the Tombaugh Regio, were not released until July of 2015.
(Some notes from the artist on the song and album are here.)
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