In article ,
(Henry Spencer) wrote:

In article .com,
wrote:
http://www.lowell.edu/press_room/rel...PL_75_rls.html
Eleven-year-old Venetia Burney from Oxford, England suggested the name.

A small correction: she was the *first* person *other than* Lowell
Observatory staff to suggest that particular name, according to Tombaugh's
account of how the name was chosen.

(He says that of the many suggestions for names, the three that were clear
favorites among astronomers in general and at Lowell in particular were
Minerva, Cronus, and Pluto. Minerva would probably have won, had it not
been recently given to an asteroid. Cronus would have been considered
seriously, had it not been initially proposed by "a certain detested
egocentric astronomer".

Anyone know who that was? Lowell himself?