Word: denser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...above the effective atmosphere, its pilot will feel zero gravity and float off his seat to the limit of his belts. Loose objects in the cockpit, if any, will drift around like smoke. This condition will last for something like five minutes, ending only when the X-15 meets denser air on the way down...
Whipple bases his belief in the rocket's death on the rapid shortening of its orbit in the last few days. He thinks this orbital decrease resulted from the rocket's being drawn down into the denser atmosphere which would hasten...
Fred L. Whipple, director of the observatory, said that a joint study of Sputnik by Smithsonian and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory revealed that the air at an altitude of 140 miles is "five times denser" than previous American rocket studies had shown...
...satellite. Now it is leading by 63 minutes and is revolving around the earth in 94.68 minutes. Dr. Fred Whipple of the Smithsonian Observatory expects the rocket to have a good many more days in space, perhaps 30 or 40. Then it will make its fiery death-plunge into denser...
...near us. This disparity would argue against the steady-state hypothesis that the density of matter in space remains constant. The radio signals we are now receiving from distant collisions started on their way billions of years ago. If the evolutionary theory is correct, the universe should have been denser then, and encounters between galaxies more likely...