#vesto slipher

[gregorygalloway]

Vesto Slipher (11 November 1875 – 8 November 1969)

[unspeakablehorror]

ajax-daughter-of-telamon replied to your post “So one thing to understand about me is that I love Muuns. Like, I’m...”

a story I've wished I could write is "The Last Days of Vesto Slipher", about the Muun henchman in Lockdown

(because he seemed to appear out of nowhere whenever the plot needed him, and I wondered where he was living on the super dangerous space prison)

Oh, yeah, I remember him!  He was so fun, and I enjoyed reading his interactions with Maul.  Which reminds me, I wanted to write him in my fics at some point.  In Cut Strings, it would just be a mention, since that’s Clone Wars time period and he’d be dead by then, but he’d still be alive in Heart of Shadow.

And that sounds like it could be an interesting fanfic!  Let me know if you write it someday!

[kidsneedscience]

Happy Birthday, Vesto Slipher!

Vesto Melvin Slipher was an American astronomer born on November 11, 1875 and died almost a century later on November 8, 1969, mostly remembered today for his contributions to understanding the ever-expanding nature of the Universe.  By performing the first measurements of the radial velocities for galaxies, he laid the groundwork for Hubble’s Law.  Slipher earned his Ph.d at Indiana University and then spent his entire career at the Lowell Observatory, overseeing Clyde Tombaugh (whom he hired) and the discovery of Pluto.  He won many of astronomy’s most prestigious prizes, including the Bruce medal, the Lalande Prize, the Henry Draper Medal and the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society.  Despite this illustrious career, not much is named for him:  the Slipher Crater on the moon (pictured), a crater on Mars and an asteroid (1766 Slipher).  Happy Birthday, Vesto!

Image of the lunar crater top and Martian crater bottom, but courtesy NASA in the public domain. 

[truthhappens]

I have developed the hugest crush of Vesto Slipher. Too bad he died in 1969.