Meet the Pioneers!
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links below the person's pictures to learn about that person!
Percival Lowell (1855-1916)
Started the search for Planet X - Pluto!
Lowell Observatory
- About Percival Lowell
George
Mason University - Percival Lowell
XRefer.Com - Percival Lowell
Clyde W. Tombaugh (1906-1997)
Discovered the Planet Pluto!
Check out the Pluto Portal's Discovery
Links Section
JPL's "The Struggles to Find the Ninth Planet"
Burdett, Kansas and Clyde
Tombaugh
InfoPlease
- Clyde Tombaugh
Gerard Kuiper (1905-1973)
Predicted the existence of a belt of comet-like debris at the edge of the Solar System, now known as the Kuiper Belt.
Windows to the Universe - Gerard Kuiper
NASA Quest - Gerard Kuiper
Columbia Encyclopedia - Gerard Kuiper
The Pluto Portal was envisioned by Dr. S. Alan
Stern, Principal Investigator of the NASA New Horizons Pluto-Kuiper Belt Mission
and Director of the Department Of Space Studies, in Boulder, CO. Website made
possibly by funding from the New Horizons Pluto-Kuiper Belt Mission. Website
created by Ted A. Nichols II. Banner and button artwork created by Daniel
Durda of Southwest Research Insitute's
Department of Space Studies in Boulder, CO. Imagery modified by Ted A.
Nichols II, with permission. Site design help provided by Patricia Kurtz of
Starfire Creations.
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