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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 hosts
Lowell hosts the oldest Labor Day parade in Indiana.
Buckley Homestead, east of Lowell, hosts a number of events, including a World War II reenactment with authentic weapons, artillery, and tanks.
The broadcast week includes programming produced by UMass Lowell students and by community hosts who represent the ethnically and linguistically diverse community of Lowell.
Peter Lowell of the Lakes Environmental Association hosts this annual fundraiser each winter to support the environmental work done in the lakes region of Maine, USA.
He hosts The Lowell Green Show, a conservative morning talk show on Ottawa radio station CFRA, and has also syndicated programming to several other Canadian radio stations.
Former show hosts include Lon Nichols ( current anchor for KLKN-TV Lincoln, NE ), Lowell Galindo ( current ESPNU anchor ,) Tom Gauthier ( current radio broadcaster and Director of Media Relations for the Class A Bowling Green Hot Rods ), Justin Termine ( current anchor and producer for NBA Radio on Sirius ,) and Mike Gastonguay ( interned as an associate producer for KXTA ’ s “ Loose Cannons ” Los Angeles, CA.

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For comparison Lowell is rated safer than Boston ( 104 of 393 ), Providence RI ( 123 ), Springfield ( 51 ), Lynn ( 120 ), Fall River ( 103 ), and New Bedford ( 85 ), but rated more dangerous than Cambridge ( 303 ), Newton ( 388 ), Quincy ( 312 ), and Worcester ( 175 ).
The primary east-west highway passing through Lowell is Interstate 85.
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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By 1868, it had surpassed Lowell as the leading textile city in America with over 500, 000 spindles.
Estimates of the total number of Cambodians living in the city of Lowell range from 11, 000 to 25, 000-35, 000.
In 2008, the violent crime Rate for Lowell was 1, 126. 3 per 100, 000 of the population, ranking it the 7th most violent city in Massachusetts right ahead of Boston with 1, 104 per 100, 000 .. Lowell's crime rate has dropped tremendously since the 1990's
In 2009, Lowell was ranked as the 139th most dangerous city of over 75, 000 residents in the United States, out of 393 communities.
Out of Massachusetts cities, nine are larger than 75, 000 residents, and Lowell was fifth most dangerous or safest.
* July: Lowell Folk Festival-three day free folk festival attended by on average 250, 000 people on the last weekend in July
In the early years of 1840's when the population quickly exceeded 20, 000, Lowell became very active as a cultural center, with the construction of the Lowell Museum, the Mechanics Hall, as well as, the new City Hall used for art exhibits, lectures, and for the performing arts.
* Stoklosa Alumni Field-Baseball stadium, used by Lowell All-Americans ( 4, 000 seats )
On February 25, 1993 Burke was honored with a Pioneer Award and $ 15, 000 from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation in a ceremony that also honored his soul rival James Brown, Wilson Pickett, Hadda Brooks, Dave Clark, Floyd Dixon, Lowell Fulson, Erskine Hawkins, Carla Thomas, Jimmy Witherspoon, Little Anthony and the Imperials, and Martha and the Vandellas.
Wang Laboratories, which in 1989 employed over 30, 000 people, was headquartered in Tewksbury, Massachusetts and later Lowell, Massachusetts.
The complex of three Wang towers in Lowell, which originally cost $ 60 million to build and housed 4, 500 workers in over a million square feet ( 100, 000 m < sup > 2 </ sup >) of office space, was foreclosed and sold at auction in 1994 for $ 525, 000.
During his time at St. Patrick's Church, he built a parochial residence at a cost of $ 3, 000 which was located next door to the church on North Lowell Avenue.
Lowell was then offered and accepted the role of Minister to the court of Spain at an annual salary of $ 12, 000.
Yaddo has hosted more than 6, 000 artists, including Hannah Arendt, Newton Arvin, Milton Avery, James Baldwin, Leonard Bernstein, Truman Capote, John Cheever, Aaron Copland, Kenneth Fearing, Jonathan Franzen, Daniel Fuchs, Steve Giovinco, Philip Guston, Daron Hagen, Ruth Heller, Patricia Highsmith, Langston Hughes, Ted Hughes, Alfred Kazin, Ulysses Kay, Stanley Kunitz, Jacob Lawrence, Alan Lelchuk, Robert Lowell, Flannery O ' Connor, Sylvia Plath, Katherine Anne Porter, Mario Puzo, Ned Rorem, Henry Roth, Philip Roth, Clyfford Still, Virgil Thomson, Colm Tóibín, Lionel Trilling, Anne Truitt, Byron Vazakas, and David Foster Wallace.
The President of Harvard, Abbott Lawrence Lowell made a counter offer: immediate promotion to professor, effective September 1, 1927, with a salary of $ 7, 000
One of them is also awarded the William Lowell Putnam Prize Scholarship of $ 12, 000 plus tuition for graduate study at Harvard University.
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.
In the 1928 city championship game between San Francisco Polytechnic and Lowell High School a crowd of over 50, 000 people saw the matchup between the bitter cross-town rivals.
On top of Lynde Hill, in the Belvidere section of Lowell, he had a 2, 000, 000-gallon reservoir constructed with a underground cast-iron branch mains connecting to several mills.

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