My LHST home pages at Lowell
Perceval Lowell founded the Observatory to study Mars and search for life, but the
telescopes there helped Clyde Tombaugh discover the planet Pluto ( the P and L stand for
Perceval Lowell!) Marc worked at STScI in its first years, and is fully aware of what the
Hubble Telescope can contribute to studies of Pluto. He plans to have new Web pages
online very soon, and is working with local high school students to upgrade them.
In answer to the question, What made me want to become an astronomer anyway? Dr. Buie
says:
For me, my career and what I decided to do with my life and studying Pluto, mostly,
has grown out of a...childhood fascination with space ...my earliest memory is of the
Mercury launch -- sitting in a dark, cold, living room, watching the TV, and I must have
only been three or four years old at the time, but I can clearly remember watching the
lift-off.
...and as I was growing up there was this great future that we were looking forward to.
With what we were thinking, back when I was in junior high school, I figured by now we'd
be on Mars. And now I would say that I am a little bit disappointed that we kind of
retrenched, and we are not as far along as I think we ought to be or could be. But on the
other hand I have to say that the thing that's got me... excited about science was the
space program, and the exploration we were about, and doing and looking beyond the Earth,
and out into the solar system. And from my earliest memories that captured my imagination
and has propelled me into what I do today.
Just released
Press Release and pictures
resulting from observations in l994 in which Dr. Marc Buie was part of the imaging team.