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...SARAH F. KUIPER...
...announcement agency for observatories in the Western Hemisphere, were Van Biesbroeck's finding of a star with the lowest known candle power; Luyten's finding of a pair of white super-dense dwarf stars; the discovery of comets by observers in Finland and New Zealand; and the discovery by Kuiper o fan atmosphere of methane and ammonia on Titan, the largest satellite of Saturn...
...remarkable eclipsing binary is the star Beta Lyrae, in the constellation of Lyra (The Harp). Astronomers have long known that its two components must be exceedingly close together, for one has hardly stopped eclipsing the other before the other starts eclipsing the first. Dr. Gerard Peter Kuiper of the University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory last week surmised that the two stars comprising Beta Lyrae are in actual contact, like snowballs crushed together...
...astronomical meeting at Wellesley, Mass., Dr. Kuiper pictured star material rushing from the larger of the Beta Lyrae pair into the smaller at speeds around 200 miles per second-so fast that some of it is hurled clear beyond the small star to form a tail like a comet's. As the stars revolve the tail is dragged around behind them, like a lagging feather...
...whom the mantle of Dr. Machen has to some extent fallen." This was cautious praise. Dr. Rienk Bouke.Kuiper, 52, was a good friend of Dr. Machen. taught at Westminster Seminary which his friend founded, succeeded him as chairman of its faculty. Along with other Machenites, Moderator Kuiper last week viewed the election of Stated Clerk Pugh as proof that they had done well to leave the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. Of church unity, toward which the larger Presbyterian Church seemed favorably disposed, he said stiffly: "This is no time for it. There ought to be more splits...