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Anthony Barringer, a Canadian geophysicist, is unbothered by Soviet se crecy. At a symposium on remote sensing in Huntsville, Ala., last week, he theorized that Luna 7's radar may have failed to "see" a top porous layer of the moon's crust. As a result, the space ship crashed on its way to a landing on the hard lunar rock below...
Writing in Nature, Physicist Clyde Cowan of Catholic University of America, along with Geophysicist Chandra Atluri and Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Willard Libby of U.C.L.A., offer the most ingenious theory so far. After disposing of previous guesses (If it was a meteor, where is the crater? If it was a comet, why was it not seen approaching?), Libby & Co. suggest that what caused the big bang may well have been a hunk of antimatter that must have wandered into the solar system from some distant galaxy...
...signs are that Washington was wrong. In a recent bulletin issued by the Soviet Academy of Sciences, a Soviet woman scientist, Geophysicist V. A. Troitskaya, reports that the shots showed up almost instantly on Soviet instruments designed to measure minute electric currents flowing through the earth. Apparently the explosions caused disturbances in the earth's magnetic field, and these spread as waves, moving with almost the speed of light. At almost the same instant, Soviet monitoring stations in the Pacific, in Central Asia, on the Black Sea, and near Murmansk in extreme northwestern Russia recorded the waves clearly. After...
When Toronto's Geophysicist J. Tuzo Wilson recently crossed the border, he found that it took five hours. After the Russians had switched the train wheels at Otpor to fit China's narrower-gauge tracks, he reported: "The train crept forward in the dark toward the actual border. It was brilliantly floodlit. Soldiers with rifles and fixed bayonets were on guard...
Died. Dr. John Adam Fleming, 79, top-level geophysicist, director (1935-46) of the department of terrestrial magnetism at the Carnegie Institution, Washington, D.C., supervisor of the institution's world magnetic survey, authority on sunspots and radio disturbance; in San Mateo, Calif...