How Astronomer Percival Lowell Mistook His Own Eye For Spokes on Venus
Kaushik Patowary Feb 2, 2021 0 comments Percival Lowell, the American astronomer whose name bears an observatory in Arizona, made several very significant observations of the planets. His biggest contribution being the hunt for Planet X beyond the orbit of Neptune. Although his search was unsuccessful, Pluto was eventually discovered near the place Lowell had predicted the missing planet would be, using the very observatory Lowell founded to study Mars. The red planet fascinated Lowell, and it was his observations of Mars and the inference he drew from it for which Lowell is remembered the m...
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