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...signature of a U.S. satellite has been determined, it is relatively easy to detect changes in the spacecraft's known configuration. In June, RSA was employed to discover which of four solar panels on a secret Air Force satellite had not flopped into place. When telemetry failed to confirm that a boom on a gravity gradient satellite had extended, RSA recognized a change in the radar pattern that proved the boom had stretched into place. A study of the radar echoes reflected from the first Nimbus weather satellite provided tumble and spin data that were unavailable from telemetry...
...poor rarely could afford wine, used cheap earthenware cooking utensils, and did not have such luxuries as cosmetics. But, says he, the aristocracy's "high death rate, as well as its low birth rate, strongly suggests lead poisoning," and his still incomplete work on exhumed bones tends to confirm his theory. Using tombstone inscriptions as a guide, he reports that life expectancy among the upper classes was 22-25 years; literary and census data indicate that the number of aristocratic births was remarkably low, "perhaps one-fourth of what would have been necessary to maintain their number." Over...
Though most scientists at the Berkeley meeting privately sided with the CERN findings, none would state flatly that symmetry had, after all, been restored. Franzini's group is preparing a new round of experiments at Brookhaven in an attempt to confirm the violations they reported; still another team led by Columbia University Physicist Leon Lederman will attempt a similar experiment, and the CERN scientists plan to make more tests of their own. "The evidence from the CERN experiments is by no means conclusive," says Franzini defiantly. "Many more experiments are needed before we can say who is right...
...Secret. If Goerner's story is correct, why is it that neither the U.S. nor the Japanese government will confirm it? That is what he wants to know. There is a sinister conspiracy in Washington, Goerner hints, aimed at keeping things hushed up, even so many years after the event. And the Japanese won't talk, he adds, because they fear that an admission of complicity would damage their hopes of recovering some of the Pacific islands that became part of a U.N. trust territory after the war. That farfetched notion will be news to the Japanese...
...about the same distance at its north pole. Because the moon has a diameter of about 2,200 miles, the distortion would hardly be noticeable when viewed from the earth. Said a NASA official: "Let's not expect to go out and look at the moon tonight to confirm this...