(en) Grimes, William, "Venetia Phair Dies at 90; as a Girl, She Named Pluto", The New York Times, 10 May 2009. Geraadpleegd op 13 april 2021. “Venetia Phair, as she became by marriage, died April 30 in her home in Banstead, in the county of Surrey, England. She was 90. The death was confirmed by her son, Patrick.”
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(en) "Venetia Phair", Daily Telegraph, 5 mei 2009. Geraadpleegd op 13 april 2021. “Venetia Phair, who has died aged 90, had the distinction of being the only woman in the world to have named a planet; in 1930, as a girl of 11, she suggested the name Pluto for the enigmatic celestial body that had just been discovered, and which became (albeit acknowledged as such only temporarily) the ninth planet in our solar system”
