Word: hulburt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every clear night, except when the moon outshines it. The light of the milky way blots out the Gegenschein during December, January, June and July. Other times it matches the Zodiacal light. Last week before the annual meeting of the American Physical Society at Columbia University Dr. Edward Olson Hulburt of the Naval Research Laboratory at Washington, gave the latest, refined theory of these phenomena. The round earth lies, in Dr. Hulburt's theory, within an egg-shaped ion cloud of its own making. This cloud is the out-spraying of the earth's spherical atmosphere which hugs...