Ok She's not 'creative', but then again I haven't really read her life story... This Venetia, however, was lucky enough to have named a planet! She suggested the name Pluto for the object discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930. She was 11 years old.
On 14 March 1930, Falconer Madan read the story of the new planet's discovery and mentioned it to his granddaughter Venetia. She suggested the namePluto (the Roman God of the Underworld who was able to make himself invisible).
Falconer Madan forwarded the suggestion to astronomer Tombaugh who liked the proposal because it started with the initials of Percival Lowell, who had predicted the existence of Pluto.
On 1 May 1930, the name Pluto was formally adopted for this new celestial body.
Cool!
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