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Welcome to the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, AZ
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Authentic Meteorite fragment that landed at the famous Meteor Crater which is only 45 miles from the Lowell Observatory in Northern Arizona
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The Percival Lowell Memorial Monument. There is an identical one in Japan in Anamizu Town, Fugeshi-gun, Ishikawa Prefecture - I hope to get a photo with the matching sign the next time I go to Japan!
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This is the mausoleum where astronomer Percival Lowell is laid to rest. It sits on the Mars Hill site of the Lowell Observatory.
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The Clark Tower, home to the 24" Clark Refracting Telescope - a key tool used to study Mars and the Moon for the Apollo program.
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The Pluto Dome where the telescope used to discover Pluto is located at the Lowell Observatory
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This is the 13" Pluto Discovery Telescope which Clyde Tombaugh used to discover the then planet Pluto.
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The Gorn with a model of the New Horizons spacecraft (not to scale!)