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Brooks, Mel., Screenshot of Spaceballs Pluto Joke, 1987-06-24.

Screenshot from the 1987 film "Spaceballs," which features a joke about Pluto.

Brouwer, Dirk, Pluto orbit work Letter from Dirk Brouwer (Yale University Observatory) to Carl Lampland, November 10, 1950, 1950-11-10

Suggestion for Carl Lampland to apply to the Office of Naval Research for a small astronomical grant to complete work on orbit of Pluto

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Buie, Marc, Pluto orbit work "Where Is Pluto?" by Marc Buie Article in New Horizons NASA’s Mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt News Center – Science Shorts Insights from members of the New Horizons Science Team, August 8, 2014, 2014-08-08

The collection of images Carl Lampland made of Pluto from 1930 until his death in 1951 were used by the New Horizon team to help pinpoint Pluto's…

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Telegram of a Name Suggestion for Planet X by Venetia Burney, Burney, Venetia, 1930

Following the discovery of a new planet in March of 1930, people across the world sent letters and telegrams to Lowell Observatory with name…

C.O. Lampland, Russia/Soviet Union Russian Astronomers after the Bolshevik Revolution Letter from Carl Lampland to V. Charushin, July 28, 1925, 1925-07-25

Appeal on behalf of Charushin's Russian friends at the Astronomical Society of Nizhuy-hovgorad for intercourse with the rest of the civilized world…

California Department of Public Health, Marriage record for E.C. Slipher and Elizabeth Tidwell, 1919, 1919-06-10

Marriage record for E.C. Slipher and Elizabeth Tidwell, Los Angeles, California, June 10, 1919

Cambridge Instrument Co., LTD, Galvanometer

Device used to measure small voltages

Central Scientific Co., Galvanometer

Device for measuring small variations in low voltages

Central Scientific Inc., Cenco Slide Rheostat

Device for variably adjusting line voltage

Chant, C.A., The Death of Percival Lowell Letter from C.A. Chant (University of Toronto) to Carl Lampland, December 15, 1916, 1916-12-15

Dr. Lowell's death

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