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Whipple, who besides being director of the Observatory is a professor of Astronomy at Harvard, is being assisted by J. Allen Hynek, visiting lecturer on Natural Sciences. Hynek is an associate director of the Observatory in charge of the satellite tracking progrm. The two of them, according to one of their staff-workers, "have practically lived at this office" since Sputnik made its appearance...
Whipple, moreover, was in Washington for an IGY conference when the Russian satellite was launched. Hynek was at home when he first heard a news report of the event, but he quickly assembled a skeleton crew of Smithsonian staff-members and began to alert the hundred or more Moonwatch stations from the Garden St. office...
...press conference yesterday, Hynek stated that there was not sufficient evidence to assume that the satellite had split, since only one report out of thousands observed such a break...
When asked by one reporter whether any end-over-end tumbling of the satellite would have any effect on the dog inside, Hynek replied, "Never having been a dog in a rocket, I don't know...
Sputnik II will pass over Boston at 12:56 Saturday afternoon. Hynek said, however, that football spectators should not attempt to spot the rocket with the naked eye, but that the Institute will try with a five-inch telescope...