I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.

Tombaugh (1906–1997)".

Although he is best known for discovering the dwarf planet Pluto in 1930 the first object to be discovered in what would later be identified as the Kuiper belt Tombaugh also discovered many asteroids; he also called for the serious scientific research of unidentified flying objects.