Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dust gatherer is a bother to the housewife, but it is a boon to the scientist. By sending rockets into space to trap meteoric dust, scientists hope to learn some of the secrets of the great void beyond the earth's atmosphere. Last week they were evaluating the catch of the best dust gatherer yet developed: an Aerobee-Hi sounding rocket, which unfolds its nose toward the top of its climb and spreads out eight graceful petals into space like a great mechanical flower...
...dust-catching Aerobee-Hi, launched last month from White. Sands, N. Mex., climbed for 102 miles before blossoming, folded its petals only after it dropped within 65 miles of the earth's surface. When it finally landed, Physicist Robert K. Soberman of the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratory hoped to find a few micrometeor punctures in the three-layer sandwich of thin Mylar film and Plexiglas that lined the Aerobee's dust catchers. What he actually found was something quite different: during each second of exposure, some ten meteorites had hit each square centimeter. Most of the holes...
...dust layer of such density has ever before been observed in space, and Dr. Soberman cannot yet explain his rocket's rich catch. One possible theory is that micrometeorites may have electric charges of the same sign-either positive or negative-when they arrive from space. The charge may accumulate near the top of the atmosphere, slow down later-arriving particles by electrostatic repulsion and make them linger there...
...British magazine New Scientist, Holdgate traces the probable biological routes between the temperate lands on the opposite sides of the South Pole. Water-resistant seeds of a few plants may have ridden the ocean currents that flow around Antarctica from west to east, he points out, and the dust-small spores of ferns may have been carried far by the prevailing westerly winds. But most plants and insects of the far southern lands cannot survive long sea or air voyages. The major crossings must have been made in some other...
...sided with an amorally jolly bunch of vagrants and winos. In The Grapes of Wrath he keened over the suffering Okies in their mass exodus, but in The Red Pony he celebrated the vernal innocence of a boy and a colt beyond the reach of civilization's dust bowls. After the '30s, this internal dramatic tension drained out of Steinbeck and his later novels are all rather like Hollywood sets, more to be looked at than lived...