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Odin Roberts '86, was the first to address the club, speaking on the work of Sir James Jeans, who was guest of honor at the dinner. Miss Margaret Har wood, director of the Maria Mitchell Observatory at Nantucket, discussed the present state of knowledge concerning the major planet Pluto and...
Only 17 mi. in diameter, Eros is one of the smallest members of the large family of minor planets which number over 1,000. Almost all the group follow orbits between Mars and Jupiter. Eros, however, does not travel in a conventional asteroid path, wanders sometimes between Mars and Jupiter...
Because Dr. Albert Einstein is the world's most celebrated living scientist, laymen tend to turn his suggestions into new Einstein theories.* Last week despatches contained accounts of a new Einstein sun theory. While talking with Mt. Wilson Observatory astronomers about cyclones on the sun which sweep clockwise across...
If Inventors Poirer, Lyon, Oberth and Esnault-Pelterie had had their rocket planes in readiness last week, they might have reached a planet with a short jaunt of only 16 million miles. The tiny asteroid Eros passed closer to the earth than any other body except the moon and an...
Titles of the talks to be given at 7.30 o'clock on the various open nights are as follows: Friday, October 17, "Pluto and Eros" by Professor Anne S. Young of Mt. Holyoke College; Tuesday, October 21, "Measuring Starlight" by Professor E. S. King; Thursday, October 23, "Something about Comets...