Word: marsden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pitching was expected to be Spring-field's only weakness this year, but it has been exceptional. Junior George Dixon, who compiled a 7-1 record last season, won two games on the Southern tour. Alternating with the left-hander is senior John Marsden, who has a 1.29 earned run average this spring...
About four or five comets are discovered in an average year, according to Brian Marsden of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory: approximately half by amateurs who make a habit of searching for them. "This has been an unusually slow year," he said...
...times a year, Marsden said, "we get telegrams which lead nowhere. Last week, one man claimed to have discover- ed a colossal nova, but it turned out to be the planet Saturn. It usually taken a fey seconds of observation to find the false alarm...
...solar system -- that is, they revolve around the sun. They will not all remain in our solar system: it is known that certain ones will eventually escape, perhaps to be picked up be another star. It has been estimated that there are a hundred billion comets in orbit, Marsden said...
...most interesting moment will come on the night of Oct. 20 when the comet will skim by the sun's surface, perhaps as close as 300,000 miles (the sun's diameter is 900,000 miles). Owen J. Gingerich, lecturer on Astronomy, and Brian Marsden of the SAO expect the total brightness of the comet may then, rival that of the crescent moon, and its tail may extend more than half-way from the horizon to the zenith...