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Lowell Observatory and NRL join in the scientific efforts through their fractions of time to use the interferometer ; science time is 85 % Navy ( NOFS and NRL ); and 15 % Lowell.
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He sent drawings of Jupiter and Mars, as well as his telescopes to the Lowell Observatory.
Tombaugh was employed at the Lowell Observatory from 1929 to 1945.
While a young researcher working for the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, Tombaugh was given the job to perform a systematic search for a trans-Neptunian planet ( also called Planet X ), which had been predicted by Percival Lowell and William Pickering.
* Observable Near-Earth Asteroids ( Lowell Observatory )
In 1894, with the help of William Pickering, Percival Lowell, a wealthy Bostonian, founded the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona.
In 1929 the observatory's director, Vesto Melvin Slipher, summarily handed the job of locating the planet to Clyde Tombaugh, a 22-year-old Kansas farm boy who had only just arrived at the Lowell Observatory after Slipher had been impressed by a sample of his astronomical drawings.
Percival Lawrence Lowell ( March 13, 1855 – November 12, 1916 ) was an American businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars, founded the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, and formed the beginning of the effort that led to the discovery of Pluto 14 years after his death.
For the last 23 years of his life astronomy, Lowell Observatory, and his and others ' work at his observatory were the focal points of his life.
Although Lowell did not discover Pluto, Lowell Observatory ( 690 ) did photograph Pluto in March and April 1915.
In 1930 Clyde Tombaugh, working at the Lowell Observatory, discovered Pluto near the location expected for Planet X.
Slipher first reports on his measurement in the inaugural volume of the Lowell Observatory Bulletin.
* Flagstaff, Arizona, a city, home of the historic Lowell Observatory and Northern Arizona University
Today, the city remains an important distribution hub for companies such as Nestlé Purina PetCare and Walgreens, and is home to Lowell Observatory, The U. S. Naval Observatory, the United States Geological Survey Flagstaff Station and Northern Arizona University.
Douglass, impressed by Flagstaff's elevation, named it as an ideal location for the now famous Lowell Observatory, saying: " other things being equal, the higher we can get the better ".
Downtown Flagstaff lies immediately to the east of Mars Hill, the location of Lowell Observatory.
* 1894: Lowell Observatory, USA
* Percival Lowell ( 1855 – 1916 ), author, astronomer, founder of Lowell Observatory, and brother of Amy and Abbott Lawrence Lowell
* Lowell Observatory, telescope, Flagstaff
Lowell and NRL
The Navy Precision Optical Interferometer ( NPOI ) is a major astronomical interferometer ( world's largest baselines ), operated by the Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station ( NOFS ) in collaboration with the Naval Research Laboratory ( NRL ) and Lowell Observatory.
The Naval Research Laboratory ( NRL ) also provides funds to contract Lowell Observatory's and NRL's implementation of additional, long-baseline siderostat stations, facilitating NRL's primary scientific work, synthetic imaging ( both celestial and of orbital satellites ).
Lowell and join
1992-Plymouth State and UMass Lowell join the Freedom Football Conference ; Curry and Nichols join the Eastern Collegiate Football Conference.
Additionally, three senators, William Doody, Norman Atkins, and Lowell Murray, declined to join the new party and continue to sit in the upper house as a rump caucus of Progressive Conservatives.
Like Yeats and Lowell before him, he writes from the borderland between private and public life …. poems join skeptical intelligence and emotional sincerity, in a way that dignifies all of our attempts to make sense of the world and of ourselves.
Lowell and scientific
From the beginning of the 1880s, fictions – some more, some less scientific – involving travels to and from Mars began to be produced in great quantities, even though the observations of Percival Lowell required reassessment of Mars as a more marginal desert planet.
The critics were from the urban-based " better music " movement, spearheaded by Lowell Mason, which advocated a more " scientific " style of sacred music, more closely based on the harmonic styles of contemporaneous European music.
He transformed the earlier variety of scientific courses into the School for Industrial Foremen at MIT, later called the Lowell Institute School, and focused its program on mechanical and electrical engineering.
Having spent much of his youth in England, Lowell was undoubtedly familiar with the Royal Institution – an entity that sponsored basic scientific research and popular lectures and demonstrations.
As of 2012, the Lowell Institute sponsors an annual series of free public lectures on current scientific topics, under the aegis of the Museum of Science Boston.
Lowell and efforts
Unlike his successor, A. Lawrence Lowell, Eliot opposed efforts to limit the admission of Jews and Roman Catholics.
Lowell was inspired to new efforts towards self-support and joined with his friend Robert Carter in founding a literary journal, The Pioneer.
She came to the attention of Dr. John and Little Feat's Lowell George in early 1978 through the efforts of Ivan Ulz, and it was Lowell who recorded her song " Easy Money " as the single for his first solo record.
Wallace's analysis showed that the surface of Mars was almost certainly much colder than Lowell had estimated, that the atmospheric pressure was too low for liquid water to exist on the surface, and he pointed out that several recent efforts to find evidence of water vapor in the Martian atmosphere with spectroscopic analysis had failed.
For his efforts in saving the city from great disaster Mr. Francis was awarded a massive silver pitcher and a salver by the City of Lowell.
Prior to this appointment, Davis was known in Lowell for his effective community policing efforts.
Lowell and through
Lowell Observatory hosts 85, 000 visitors per year at their Steele Visitors Center who take guided daytime tours and view various wonders of the night sky through the Clark Telescope and other telescopes.
* North Country Trail, runs north / south the length of the county, passing through Cedar Springs, Grattan and Lowell.
Indiana State Road 2, which connects South Bend and Lowell, passes through the southeast corner of the city.
The Middlesex Canal, which flowed through Billerica between 1795 and 1852, was used to transport goods between Lowell and Boston.
In the 1840s, the Boston and Lowell Railroad's main line was built and passed through the town's villages of North Billerica and East Billerica.
* The Boston and Lowell Railroad started operating through Woburn in 1835
The public schools in Lowell are Lowell Elementary School, Kindergarten through Grade 5, and Holbrook Middle School, Grades 6-8.
The primary east-west highway passing through Lowell is Interstate 85.
From their inaugural season of 2001 through 2003, the Cannons played their home games at Cawley Memorial Stadium in Lowell, Massachusetts.
In late 1839, Lowell met Maria White through her brother William, a classmate of his at Harvard.
Lowell resigned from his Harvard professorship in 1874, though he was persuaded to continue teaching through 1877.
MBTA Bus routes 350, 351, 352 and 354 operated by the MBTA run through the town, as do Lowell Regional Transit Authority, Lexpress ( Lexington ), Bedford, and B-Line ( Burlington ) buses.
Other through freights served the yards above as well as intermediate points and also State Line ( New York Central interchange ), Brockton, Framingham and Lowell ( Boston and Maine interchange for traffic for Taunton, New Bedford and Fall River ).
It flows mostly south and slightly west through Montcalm County, Ionia County, and Kent County, flowing into the Grand River in Lowell.
Lowell in 1909 – 10 added a new admission procedure that allowed students to qualify through a new examination process designed to admit " the good scholar from a good school that does not habitually prepare for Harvard.
It is from this period that Delmar Lowell traces the descent of the Lowles through England until their departure for the colonies.
Now alone, Lowell reprograms the drones to perform surgery on his leg and sets the Valley Forge on a risky course through Saturn's rings.
Sendler's message of love and respect has grown through the performances, over 1, 500 media stories, a student-developed website with 30, 000, 000 hits, a national teaching award in Poland and the United States, and an educational foundation, the Lowell Milken Education Center, to make Sendler ’ s story known to the world.
The band functioned as the unofficial house band for Atlantic Records in the early 1950s, and several future stars passed through its ranks, including Ray Charles and Lowell Fulson.
M-21 runs east of town through the southern end of the Lowell State Gaming Area and crosses into Ionia County.
Both Augustus and Katherine Lawrence Lowell were able to trace their ancestry back through the earliest colonial settlers and founders of New England, in the mid 17th century, and even further back to notable English families of the 12th and 13th centuries.
One of these roads was the Middlesex Turnpike, the present-day Hampshire Street, which connected Cambridge with Lowell and Boston, bringing regional traffic through the area.
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