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5 unusual facts about Percival Lowell


Anamizu, Ishikawa

The third weekend in August is the celebration of Percival Lowell's contribution to astronomy and his time spent in the Noto peninsula.

Basil Hall Chamberlain

Percival Lowell, in his travelogue Noto: an unexplored corner of Japan (1891), dedicated it to Chamberlain.

John Bolling

John and Mary Bolling's descendants are some of the only American descendants of Pocahontas, and include Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, wife of U. S. President Woodrow Wilson, Percival Lowell, Harry Flood Byrd and Richard Evelyn Byrd.

Percival Lowell

Voyager 2's 1989 encounter with Neptune yielded a more precise value of its mass, and the discrepancies disappear when using this value.

Lowell became determined to study Mars and astronomy as a full-time career after reading Camille Flammarion's La planète Mars.



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