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1604 Tombaugh is an asteroid discovered by Carl Otto Lampland on March 24, 1931 at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. It was named after Clyde W. Tombaugh, who discovered the planet Pluto in 1930. The asteroid's original designation was 1931 FH.

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