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Meanwhile Oxford undergraduates, celebrating their first crew race victory over Cambridge in 14 years, rampaged through London's show district, invading theatres in some of which they climbed on the stage and "took over the show." Rightly suspecting that the young gentlemen would want to finish up by stealing...
The Boat Race crowd-anywhere from 300,000 to 1,000,000, depending on the weather-is usually the biggest sports crowd of the year. Last week it was not so large as usual because the tides made it impossible to hold the race on a Saturday. The disturbances in...
Lopsided Planet. Eros is one of hundreds of asteroids (small planets) spinning around the sun as devotedly as if they were big planets. Mostly their orbits lie between Mars and Jupiter. The egg-shaped orbit of Eros, however, swings it far inside the Martian track and it is possible for...
In 1931 Eros swooped within 16,000,000 miles of Earth and two astronomers at Johannesburg were able to make out an elongation which changed in direction, completing a rotation in 5 hr. 17 min.
It was thus apparent that Eros was so small that its force of gravity was too weak to pull it into anything resembling a sphere. Last week Dr. Henry Norris Russell of Princeton, reading a paper for a Harvard colleague, gave the most probable dimensions of Eros as 22 miles...