Lowell Observatory Flagstaff

1400 Mars Hill Road, Flagstaff , Arizona, United States - Phone: 928-774-3358
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    Rocks and Stars

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    We headed out to the Petrified Forest today. The fossils do look like fallen trees from the sides, with the bark being very obvious. But from the ends, well, not so obvious. The colorful minerals that have replaced the insides of the trees just looks likes rocks to me. Red, golden, purple, even some black that looks like obsidian. It's an out of …

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    Okay i only have 20 minutes to spew out ...

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    ... recreational area known as Snow Bowl just to gather some karma for this year's football showdown in January. In Flagstaff I visited the Lowell Observatory where the planet Pluto was first observed and where Mars was first seriously mapped. It's a very ...

  • 2

    Flagstaff, Space Day !

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    ... pin! How amazing is that? We were all really interested in the Crater, but had to leave to get back to Flagstaff to go to the Lowell Observatory. Tegs was really excited by that. She can't decide whether she wants to be a vet, a marine biologist or ...

  • 3

    Flagstaff

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    ... really applaud much. This must be the sole thing that the English do louder than the Americans.... Whilst in Flagstaff we visited the Lowell observatory which was the place where Pluto was discovered. Pluto was not visible on the night we visited ...

  • 4

    Flagstaff Funstuff

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    ... because it was the first visit.  I had my adventures all planned out.  I wanted to visit the Meteor Crater and the Lowell Observatory.  I was able to do both.  As soon as class would end, I would head out to the car and find my ...

  • 5

    Look, up in the sky...

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    ... plane? Well it isn't a planet any more! Poor, poor Pluto.  It  came to life as a planet at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff Arizona.  It was found with one of the telescopes here, by the astronomer Lowell.  He named it Pluto as ...

  • 6

    Escape the heat of Phoenix here

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    ... New York faggots were going to buy something....  And we did.     While back in Flagstaff, we decided to check out Lowell Observatory to do some star gazing.  First off, you don't need to come here to star gaze.  Go ...

  • 7

    Day out in Flagstaff

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    ... an hour and a half. Then I walked back to downtown Flagstaff and walked up Mars Hill Road to go and have a look at Lowell Observatory where they discovered Pluto in 1930. It was quite interesting, I took two tours around the observatory and spent 3 and ...

  • 8

    Last few days with ACE and Flagstaff

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    ... then booked my hotel in LA and a car for the 2 day drive. Later that evening we all planned to go and visit the Lowell observatory which discovered Pluto back in 1930, this was a half hour walk and as we approached realised the weather was less than ...

  • 9

    Flagstaff- What's The Origin Of The Name?

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    ... State Park is our next destination. As we make our way down towards the park we come across a sign pointing the way to the Lowell Observatory. We look at each other and say "Sounds good to me!" I always supposed that the observatory was located way up on ...

  • 10

    Rocks and Stars

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    ... like obsidian.  It's an out of the way location, but well worth the trip. That evening, we visited the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff.  There was a presentation on the cosmos, then we went outside to do a little observing through a couple of ...