Word: geiger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Geiger counters had been carried aloft in the nose of an Aerobee rocket, and when their records were recovered, scientists could hardly believe the data. If the figures were correct, there was an object up there in the constellation Scorpio that has yet to be spotted by the most sensitive optical or radio telescopes. That object is spewing out more X rays than had been calculated to come from all the rest of the billions of stars in the galaxy put together. But because they are unable to penetrate the earth's atmosphere, the rays remain invisible to instruments...
...buildings for which Wiggins signed licenses last spring are presently being stocked with special "survival" crackers, large tanks of chlorinated water, medical supplies, and a Geiger counter. The supplies will be replaced every five years...
...regatta at Annapolis will be Harvard's first event of the spring season. Next on the Crimson's calendar is a defense of the Geiger Trophy at MIA on April...
...algebra. Tuning up for the school's spring "talent fair," a sixth-grader had polled all no state legislators on their views of Michigan's proposed new constitution. A seventh-grader fed radioactive food to mother mice to study its effect on sucklings; his pal built a Geiger counter to help out. One eighth-grader analyzed Detroit newspapers to see how fairly they covered Michigan's gubernatorial campaign. Another designed a tiny bathysphere with sensing devices, so he can send a hamster to the bottom of a deep lake and record its reactions...
...close to Venus. But along the way it will conduct four experiments that are expected to tell scientists much about the conditions in interplanetary space. A magnetometer in the 447-lb. spacecraft will measure the magnetic fields of space and Venus. An ionization chamber and a group of three Geiger-Miiller tubes will measure the number and intensity of such high-energy particles as protons, electrons and the nuclei of atoms, in an effort to gather more knowledge about the hazards of manned space flights. One instrument will determine the flow and density of the charged particles (the solar wind...