Northern Arizona University student studies comet trajectories through work at Lowell Observatory

Posted by Author on Source on January 6, 2025

Sam Hemmelgarn stands beside the Clarke Telescope.
Northern Arizona University doctoral student Sam Hemmelgarn stands next to the Clark Telescope at Lowell Observatory on Friday, Dec. 27. She has been working with Lowell on a model that uses meteor showers to learn about the path of long-period comets.
Photo Credit: Hattie Loper, Arizona Daily Sun
A Northern Arizona University Ph.D. student working at Lowell Observatory helped lead a study using meteor showers to predict the path of comets that take hundreds of years to travel through the solar system.

Read the story from the Arizona Daily Sun.

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