I just participated in the I Heart Pluto Festival last weekend in Flagstaff, moderating the panel discussion we had with Adam Nimoy, Alan Stern, and David Levy. What do you rank as the top discovery made at Lowell? Clyde Tombaugh’s discovery of Pluto in 1930, or V.M. Slipher’s discovery that so-called spiral nebulae were receding away in 1912, the precursor to Hubble’s later investigations of the nature of galaxies and distance scale of the cosmos?
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I’m flagging these spam posts as I see them . This forum was awesome back before it got shut down . There was a lot of great content back then . Unfortunately a lot of great members were lost in the interim . It’ll take awhile to get back to what it was if it ever can . I don’t remember ever seeing spam posts back then . Maybe more questions need to be asked before people can sign up . Just some basic astronomy questions . That’d be somewhat of a deterrent .
Yeah, @Starrancher, there are a lot of businesses advertisements here. Every time, I mistakenly click on them!
Nikolai.
I just keep flagging them as I see them . Still they shouldn’t be able to get on here .
I got to meet Clyde Tombaugh once. He was a great guy with a good sense of humor. That being said, I would say that Slipher’s discovery takes precedence because of the physical repercussions on the universe at large. He doesn’t get the recognition he deserves, because he really should share the credit with Hubble. That also being said, I always thought that Hubble deserved a Nobel Prize in physics for what he did.
Is Pluto back to being classified as a planet now again or not ?
I think It won’t be possible
I was almost certain they brought it back to planet status