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Undaunted by so formidable an obstacle, Astronomer Peter van de Kamp, the director of the Sproul Observatory at Swarthmore (Pa.) College, set out 31 years ago to search for dark companions of nearby stars. His long effort has been well rewarded. Last week the Dutch-born, 67-year-old astronomer an nounced the first "solid evidence" that there is a system of planets other than the solar system. He has detected two planets circling Barnard's star, some 35 trillion miles away from the earth, in the constellation Ophiuchus...
Stubborn Search. Van de Kamp and his assistants found the Barnard plan ets by using a classical astronomical technique: searching for irregularities in the path of a celestial body, a wobble that might be caused by the gravitational pull of a dark, unseen companion. As early as 1844, for example, astronomers concluded from wobbles in the path of Sirius that the bright star was accompanied through space by a star too faint to be seen from earth. The same technique has been used to establish that several other apparently single stars are actually members of a binary sys tem; they...
...most engaging subject is the fourth in the series - Swarthmore Col lege Astronomer Peter van de Kamp, 64, who in 1963 discovered "Barnard's Star B," the first planet outside the solar system. The program opens with Amateur Composer Van de Kamp at the pi ano, playing one of his own works; then he gets up, kisses his wife goodbye, throws on a scarf, and heads out for a hard night's day at the observatory, where the camera briskly retraces the hours of patient study that led Van de Kamp to his revolutionary discovery...
...Hialeah, Fla., last week, a trio of 14-year-olds ranked high among the winners at the A.A.U. women's swimming championships. The Indianapolis Athletic Club's Kathy Ellis won the 100-yd. butterfly; her teammate, Jean Ann Delle-kamp, took the 100-yd. breaststroke; and California's Donna de Varona, youngest member of last year's U.S. Olympic team, was first in the 200-yd. individual medley. Olympic Star Chris Von Saltza, a veteran at 17 and about to retire from competitive swimming, won the 100-yd., 250-yd. and 500-yd. freestyle events...