Word: lunar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With good Marxist resolutions and a holiday cease-fire on the Quemoy "front," Red China last week marked the beginning of a new lunar year-the Year of the Pig. To Chinese, the pig is a symbol of prosperity. Given last year's vaunted "great leap forward" in the Year of the Dog in the production of everything from steel to sesame seeds, and given all their own hard work, mainland China's hard-pressed masses had every reason to expect to be eating higher on the hog. Instead, they are living through some of the hardest times...
...Harvard thinks that Kozyrev certainly saw something happen on the moon, but it may have been merely a jet of gas breaking out of a crevice. Physicist J. H. Fremlin of the University of Birmingham, England theorized in this week's Nature that if the bottoms of lunar craters are deeply covered with dust, as many astronomers think, they are likely places for gas eruptions. The dust layer, says Fremlin, would be a good heat insulator. It would trap under the crater's floor the heat generated by radioactivity in the moon's rock. Many times...
...They suggest that "he thinks that it is his destiny to make a great discovery." When Kozyrev made the spectrograms, he did not mention them to his colleagues at the Crimean Observatory. Instead, he rushed off to Moscow and a week later held a press conference to announce his lunar volcano. This is considered odd scientific manners, even in Russia...
...into the lesser satellites, each of them blasting an impact pit in its surface. The bigger pits punched through the moon's crust and were filled with lava from the molten interior. The biggest satellite of all, about 100 miles in diameter, hit the present site of the lunar plain called Mare Imbrium-the right eye of the "man in the moon...
...being lava on much of the moon's surface, but he does not think that it welled out of a molten interior. Instead, he contends, it was formed on the spot by the energy of great meteors that hit the moon and melted both themselves and the local lunar rock. He thinks that the present surface material may be something like sand or gravel...