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Screenplay by LOUIS and IRENE KAMP...
That statistic did not deter Astronomer Peter van de Kamp of Swarthmore (Pa.) College's Sproul Observatory. In the late 1960s, after years of patient observation, he provided what seems to be the first evidence of planets beyond the solar system: two large Saturn-size bodies circling Barnard's Star, which is 5.9 light-years from earth. Now van de Kamp has announced a discovery that may be still more significant. At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Las Cruces, N. Mex., he reported finding another unseen body orbiting the star Epsilon Eridani, 10.7 light-years...
Tiny Wobbles. How could van de Kamp find-let alone describe-objects so distant that they cannot be seen through optical telescopes or detected by radiotelescopes? He owes his success to a branch of astronomy called astrometry, which includes the measuring of tiny perturbations, or wobbles, in the paths of some stars as they move almost imperceptibly against the background of much more distant "fixed" stars. Astronomers are convinced that those periodic disturbances in what should be a smooth line of motion as the stars wheel about the center of the Milky Way Galaxy can mean only one thing: that...
...Kamp began his search in 1937. He used Sprout's 24-in. refracting telescope to photograph at regular intervals the several hundred stars in the sun's immediate neighborhood in hopes of detecting any odd movements in their paths. In addition to his interest in Barnard's Star, he was particularly intrigued by Epsilon Eridani. Though most nearby stars are small, relatively faint "red dwarfs," Epsilon Eridani is a bright yellow-orange star somewhat like the sun with about seven-tenths of its mass and 30% of its luminosity. Thus, if there were any planets in orbit...
Outmuscled. Peace, however, did not last long aboard Mi Amigo. After going ashore, ostensibly for a rest, Van der Kamp returned in the dark of night with the other three crew members, armed (according to the disk jockeys) with guns. The deejays tried to defend their quarters with iron bars but were outmuscled by the sailors. The captain cut the anchor, and a small tugboat dragged Mi Amigo into Amsterdam harbor. Charges and countercharges flew; a Dutch shipping inspector declared Mi Amigo unsafe to sail...