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Lowell Observatory

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Lowell Observatory

US astronomical observatory founded by Percival Lowell at Flagstaff, Arizona, with a 61-cm/24-in refractor opened in 1896. The observatory now operates other telescopes at a nearby site on Anderson Mesa, including the 1.83-m/72-in Perkins reflector of Ohio State and Ohio Wesleyan universities. In 2003, it announced a joint project with Discovery Communications to build a 4-metre telescope called the Discovery Channel Telescope for ultrawide field images and spectroscopy. The instrument is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2006.


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During the 1990s, Humphreys and her colleagues used a telescope at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz.
I don't think most people really believed [comets could crash into planets] until they saw it happen," says Carolyn Shoemaker, a planetary astronomer at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona.
Four-Meter Class Reflecting Telescope Will Serve the Research Goals of Lowell Observatory and Educational and Programming Goals of Discovery Communications
 
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