What is "tombaugh"

Tombaugh Crater is an impact crater in the Elysium quadrangle of Mars, located at 3.5°N latitude and 198.2°W longitude. It is 60.3 km in diameter and was named after Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer (1906–1997), and the name was approved in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN).

Wikitombaughwest.jpg|West side of Tombaugh (Martian crater), as seen by CTX camera (on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter).

Tombaugh may refer to:

• Tom Baugh (born 1963, as Thomas Anthony Baugh), U.S. American football center
• Clyde Tombaugh (1906-1997, born Clyde William Tombaugh), astronomer who discovered the dwarf planet Pluto
• Tombaugh (Martian crater), a crater on Mars named after Clyde Tombaugh, found in the Elysium quadrangle
• 1604 Tombaugh (1931 FH), the asteroid Tombaugh, named after Clyde Tombaugh, discovered by Carl Otto Lampland on 24 March 1931, at the Lowell Observatory
• Tombaugh Regio, a light-colored heart-shaped region on Pluto, named after Clyde Tombaugh
• Tombaugh Cliffs, ice-free cliffs in Antarctica, next to the Pluto Glacier, named after Clyde Tombaugh