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Lowell Observatory

American  

noun

  1. the astronomical observatory, situated in Flagstaff, Arizona, at which Pluto was discovered in 1930.


Etymology

Origin of Lowell Observatory

Named after P. Lowell

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The most important thing you'll need to know where to look and have a good view of the horizon, according to Nick Moscowitz, an astronomer at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona.

From Salon • Sep. 27, 2024

When Clyde Tombaugh, a young astronomer at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, discovered Pluto 90 years ago, it was a speck of light barely visible to the largest ground-based telescopes.

From Nature • Jul. 28, 2020

“These two things fit together,” says Will Grundy of the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz., a co-author of the three new Arrokoth studies and leader of the Kuiper Belt binary analysis.

From Scientific American • Feb. 20, 2020

The Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz., benefits from the same high desert conditions as the Atacama in Chile.

From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2018

The Lowell Observatory, as you will recall, was a bit of an oddity thanks to Percival Lowell’s obsession with Martian canals, which in the 1910s made it, in every sense, an outpost of astronomical endeavor.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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