Word: meteor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expanded so much that its temperature has fallen to that of the stratosphere, about -68° F. But when it hits a model, friction heats the gas to 7,000° F., making it brightly luminous. The gas streams around the model like the glowing trail of a meteor. The flow lasts so short a time (1/1000th of a second) that the model is not damaged, but this brief period is long enough to permit the scientists to study its effects...
...Desires (Meteor-Fama; Grand Prize Films) is the first German film in several years that is worth the expense of its subtitles. It starts as a brisk thriller about a drug-addicted ballerina who pilfers her poison from an apothecary's safe. But soon the picture is twisting through some gothic involutions of motive, and it finishes in one of those duels of abstractions the Germans love and almost manage to make believable...
...dreams of flying almost every night." The rocket man is told by his double-dome dad (Herbert Marshall), a rocket scientist, to go and catch a meteorite. He does this, 80 miles above the earth, with the help of the most startling invention since the Sky Hook-the "Meteor Scoop." Details are not disclosed (presumably they are not yet known to the Russians), but the principle is evident: the rocket has a lower lip that drops down at the strategic moment, and the meteorite just pops in like an interstellar sourball...
...trio disclosed that the meteor particles must be either very heat resistant or very young in order to withstand an intense heat of nearly 1500 degrees Fahrenheit when they pass within 5,500,000 miles...
...distance of 480,000,000 miles from the sun, the Delta Aqurids pass near the orbit of the planet Jupiter and the powerful gravitational field of this planet. The scientists stated that the meteor particles are subject to extreme distortion at this time...