To clean up space junk, some people grabbed a net and harpoon

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By Sarah ScolesDec 16, 2018, 7:00 am324 pts
This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Clyde Tombaugh spent much of his life peering at telescope data. He discovered Pluto in 1930, and he spent years poking around the outer solar system. But as the scientific community began to dream…

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