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Title: Pluto and Beyond The History of Lowell Observatory By: Anne Minard


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Pluto and BeyondThe History of Lowell
ObservatoryBy Anne Minard
  • Presented by Lauren Harley

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The Loss of Pluto
  • Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet
  • Dwarf planet- all objects big enough that their
    own gravity makes them round- but has not cleared
    the neighborhood around its orbit

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Neptune
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Vesto Melvin Slipher
  • 1st to understand red shifts
  • He made a spectrum of the Andromeda Nebula in
    1910.

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Art Adel
  • Discovered a narrow window in the Earths
    atmosphere through which astronomers can detect
    infrared radiation for their studies
  • Produced the 1st definitive emission spectrum of
    the moon

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Goldilocks Zone
  • Emits a comparatively modest amount of UV light
  • Our sun hardly changes at all- even compared to
    stars similar to it.

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The Little Ice Age
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Deep Impact craft
  • Theres a little bit of something destructive in
    everybody.
  • Launched on January 12, 2005
  • The impact produced a flare that brightened
    Tempel 1 by six times.
  • The entire mission cost more than 300 million.

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Discovery Channel Telescope
  • 45 million with a target completion date of
    2010
  • Spotting asteroids on trajectories toward Earth,
    chronicling the birth of galaxies in faraway
    parts of the universe
  • Wide-field camera

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Pictures
  • Slide 1 http//starryskies.com/articles/dln/7-99/
    pluto.jpg
  • Slide 2 http//www.boskowan.com/www/jirka/vesmir/
    planets/pluto/pluto.jpg
  • Slide 3 http//www.cnes.fr/imagezoom.php?filep11
    35_ed77069b38b89947b9f6e5678e9af2adkuiper_pluton.j
    pglabelOutersolarsystemandKuiperBelt.Credi
    ts3ANASA
  • Slide 4 http//www.scienceclarified.com/images/ue
    sc_09_img0528.jpg
  • Slide 5 http//nuclphys.sinp.msu.ru/persons/image
    s/slipher_vesto_melvin.jpg
  • Slide 6 http//www.noao.edu/image_gallery/images/
    d4/moon.jpg
  • Slide 7 http//z.about.com/d/space/1/0/Y/Q/sun_to
    ur.jpg
  • Slide 8
  • -http//www.nicholsoncartoons.com.au/cartoons/new/
    2006-01-1420Bush20Promised20Land20Global20War
    ming20Int550.jpg
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  • -http//newsbusters.org/static/2007/09/2007-09-03G
    lobalWarming.jpg
  • -http//blogs.princeton.edu/eqn/images/bigstockpho
    to_Global_Warming_217540.jpg
  • -http//www.jeffsweather.com/weatherlog/archives/a
    ntaricwaves.jpg
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    on_Dioxide.png
  • Slide 9 http//www.nasa.gov/images/content/121575
    main_HRI-937-516.jpg
  • Slide10 http//uanews.ccit.arizona.edu/silk/dct_r
    ender_rev306.jpg
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