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MESSIAEN: Turangalila-Symphonie; LUTOSLAWSKI: Les Espaces du Sommeil, Symphony No. 3. Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra (Messiaen) and the Los Angeles Philharmonic (Lutoslawski...
...short of the Fourth of July. Next March, as Halley's speeds toward its closest approach to earth, it will be greeted by five diminutive, instrument-crammed space probes, two launched by Japan, two by the Soviet Union and one by the eleven nations of the European Space Agency (ESA). The close encounters were set for March because that is when the comet passes through earth's orbital plane, the same level in which the spacecraft travel. Over several whirligig days, the flotilla will scrutinize the comet in exhaustive detail, from the fuzzy gaseous cloud that surrounds its icy nucleus...
...Giotto could be as much as 6,000 miles off the route projected to take it within 300 miles of the snowball. That much of an error could send it either too far from the nucleus to get the desired results or crash it into the comet. Says ESA's Bonnet: "This is going to be the most difficult observation ever made in interplanetary space...
...voyage of Ariane V 11 was the third successful venture for Arianespace, the mainly French-based company that manages commercial operations for the ESA. The company's first moneymaking launch came in May, almost 2½ years after the ESA began with a series of noncommercial flights. Most of Arianespace's customers are firms and government agencies from within the European Community. Nonetheless, both Arianespace and NASA are competing for the proliferating satellite market outside Western Europe. So far, Arianespace has won contracts for six American, two Brazilian, one Arab, one Australian and several other international payloads. Altogether...
...dean of the Faculty was selected, an event which happens only about once a over a decade. The results of a campus-wide survey on sexual harassment poked a hole in the air of complacency that has gripped Harvard on the issues. The publication of the Pl Esa Club's newsletter, which contained sexist and degrading language, galvansized campus outrage...