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Lowell Observatory Celebrates 100th Anniversary
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ALEX CHADWICK, Host: A historic observatory celebrates a century of
gazing at the heavens, and the call of the wild, after headlines from
Jean Cochran.
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CHADWICK: One hundred years ago tomorrow, Percival Lowell of Boston
arrived in Flagstaff, Arizona. He was met there by his friend A.E.
Douglas, who took him to a newly-built observatory at a place called
Mars Hill. The two men spent much of that night looking at the heavens,
particularly at Mars. Mars was Percival Lowell's passion, and it
was for this that he had the observatory built. Over ...
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