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...another bulge helps keep the moon in line by centrifugal force. G.E.'s experimental satellite employs the same principle. The "bulges" are two 11-lb. spheres on the ends of 52-ft. booms that extend from the satellite after it has been fired into orbit. One such Gravity Gradient Test Satellite (GGTS) was lofted into a 21,000-mile-high orbit in mid-June, and it is gradually but successfully stabilizing its attitude with one rod pointing toward the earth and the other away...
Earlier models of this Gravity Gradient system used on four other satellites were successful at lower altitudes. But scientists questioned whether far out, where the earth's gravity is weak, the damping devices which kept the satellite from swinging like a pendulum in lower orbits would still be effective. G.E. experts, however, were convinced that their basic system was reliable...
Further north, Glen Ellen in Fayston boasts the greatest vertical drop in the East, 2645 feet, and will open its second season with a new double chair, making three in all. The upper half of a new FIS-calibre downhill trail has also been completed, with a maximum gradient of 80 degrees. A new mid-mountain restaurant has also been added this year. Madonna Mountain (formerly Smuggler's Notch) near Stowe has replaced two with a new 5700-foot Hall double chair to augment last year's 6600 foot chair. A new glant sialoza trail has been out which drops...
Further north, Glen Ellen in Fayston boasts the greatest vertical drop in the East, 2645 feet, and will open its second season with a new double chair, making three in all. The upper half of a new FIS-calibre downhill trail has also been completed, with a maximum gradient of 30 degrees. A new mid-mountain restaurant has also been added this year. Madonna Mountain (formerly Smuggler's Notch) near Stowe has replaced two pomas with a new 5700-foot Hall double chair to augment last year's 6600 foot chair. A new giant slalom trail has been cut which...
Omega-Minus Signature. The unknown particle predicted by the eightfold way was named omega minus, and both CERN Laboratory in Geneva and Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island started elaborate campaigns to find it. Brookhaven's apparatus was built around the 33-bev (billion electron volt) Alternating Gradient Synchrotron, and it used a line of magnets and electrostatic separators 400 ft. long to isolate negative K-mesons. Ten of the K-mesons were allowed to enter Brookhaven's 80-in. liquid-hydrogen bubble chamber every 2½ seconds, and pictures were taken of the results. Two pictures...