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...Time Problem. Other stars may have better planets. But a handicap to interstellar voyages is that they must conquer not only space but time. Even the nearest stars are light-years away, and each light-year is six trillion miles. If a space ship traveled at 50,000 m.p.h. (high speed in the solar system), it would take many thousands of years to reach a nearby star. Its crew would die of old age before the voyage had really gotten under...
Meteors, most astronomers think, are merely junior members of the solar system-fragments of comets or wandering bits of a blown-up planet. But a few experts still cling to the more romantic theory that some meteors hit the earth after traveling across interstellar space, perhaps for billions of years, from some other part of the Milky Way galaxy (of which the solar system is a part...
...such learned romanticist is Dr. Lincoln La Paz, of the University of New Mexico. Last week Dr. La Paz announced his conclusion that a 600-lb. meteorite recently dug up near Ardmore, Okla. is probably one of these rare visitors from interstellar space...
...granular hexahedrite, and there is enough of the odd stuff for all sorts of experiments, which may prove the La Paz contention: that the meteorite could never have been formed from the molten inside of a defunct planet. It may have been formed in some other way deep in interstellar space, or in another planetary system around some foreign star...
...Christian Booksellers Association, who met in Chicago last week, could hardly believe the book jackets before their eyes. On one, a girl with a coy come-hither glance was profiled against a street of shadows; on another, a rocket ship looking like a futuristic swordfish zipped across interstellar space; a third, titled Vivid Experiences in Korea, was blocked out with vivid green and orange totem poles. It was all part of Moody Press's current campaign to give soul saving more sales appeal...