From the desk of Marc W. Buie

Research News and Information

This page and those following contain information on research projects I'm working on here at Lowell Observatory. Also included are informational items that might be of general interest plus my bibliography.


  • Pluto (also check out information on our mission to Pluto).
  • Trans-Neptunian Objects (aka. Kuiper Belt Objects, Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt Objects)
  • Searching for Trans-Neptunian Objects for the New Horizons mission to Pluto
  • Development of a new infrared imaging spectrograph, Mimir.
  • Near-earth asteroids
  • Observing automation project. (Telescope status)
  • Stellar occultations by solar system objects
  • Comet/Asteroid Chiron and other distant objects in the solar system
  • Images of Comet Hyakutake

  • My personal library of IDL routines
  • Description of CCDPHOT, a tool for CCD Photometry
  • Ephemeris tools for IDL.
  • Get copies of my IDL library.
  • Weather and sky monitors for Anderson Mesa.

  • NASA and the Space Program (some personal editorial comments)
  • Random bits that inspire
  • Interesting WWW pages
  • Asteroids that I have named

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