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...casual reader, the story may sound like a far-out effort at science fiction. But the moon tale told by Swedish Physicist Hannes Alfven amounts to much more than an imaginative voyage into the distant past; it is an ingenious effort to reconstruct a cosmic catastrophe that changed the composition of man's earth and set a new course for the moon more than 2 billion years...
...Alfven's theory reaches back to a time when the moon was not yet a satellite of earth, when it soared around the sun like any other planet on its own independent orbit. Trouble was, its orbit took the moon near its large neighbor, the earth. In Icarus, International Journal of the Solar System, Alfven suggests that eventually the moon ventured too close and was captured by the earth's gravity...
...Room, 3-5 p.m., is Dvorak's Quartet in E-flat, Saint-Saens' Septet for String Quartet, Bass, Trumpet & Piano, Fernando Sor's Estudio 5, 12, 9, Minuetto from Sonata (Opus 22), Largo from Fantasia II, Rondo Allegretto from Sonata (Opus 22), Andante Largo (Opus 5, no. 5), Hugo Alfven's Midsummer Vigil, Swedish Rhapsody (no. 1, Opus 19), The Mountain King, A Ballet Pantomime (Opus 87), and Bloch's Schelomo...
Third Planet. Alfven believes that his theory gives nearly every star a retinue of planets. "In fact," he says, "if we consider a star with the same mass as the sun, we should expect that the third planet from it moves at about the same distance as the earth from the sun, and has a constitution which is similar...
...reasonable extension of Alfven's theory: the third planet away from stars like the sun has the conditions most likely to sustain life...