“The first two letters of the name Pluto are the initials of Percival Lowell. Its symbol is, a planetary monogram. But Lowell’s lifelong love was the planet Mars. He was electrified by the announcement in 1877 by an Italian astronomer, Giovanni Schiaparelli, of canali on Mars.”

“The first two letters of the name Pluto are the initials of Percival Lowell. Its symbol is, a planetary monogram. But Lowell’s lifelong love was the planet Mars. He was electrified by the announcement in 1877 by an Italian astronomer, Giovanni Schiaparelli, of canali on Mars.”

— Carl Sagan