Word: alfv
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more and more science fiction becomes science fact, the exploits of Buck Rogers seem less and less fanciful. Reviving an old idea, two University of California scientists have now proposed that astronauts follow in the footsteps of Buck and Wilma. Man's next target in space, Hannes Alfvèn and Gustaf Arrhenius argue in Science, should be one of the tens of thousands of asteroids -or planetoids, as Buck called them -that circle the sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter...