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Hailstones. The scientists, for the most part, kept mum. Some fumbled around with the idea of solar reflections, meteor crystals, ice crystals, hailstones. No astronomer had seen anything unusual. No weather plane or radar screen had picked up any astral bodies. Air Forces spokesmen denied that they had experimental planes resembling the saucers seen in the Northwest or anywhere else...
...Pierce of Harvard bounced radio waves off the meteor trails. His gadget gave a dramatic whistle, like the screech of an approaching shell, whenever a meteor hit the atmosphere. Other scientists took to radar, which can see through clouds as if they were Cellophane. At the Bureau of Standards' laboratory near Sterling, Va., they watched bright blobs of light on a radarscope. These were made, they said, by the radar beam reflected from hot, ionized gases-the remains of meteors as they disintegrated in the atmosphere 50 to 80 miles...
Probably at least one of the tunnels would be big enough to handle a full-sized super-rocket, testing 1) its reactions on its roaring rise through the atmosphere; 2) its flight through empty space, where utter cold makes many metals lose their strength; 3) its meteor plunge to earth, heated perhaps near incandescence by friction with denser...
...Harvard astronomers circled the Boston heavens last night in a "flying planetarium" to record the effects of the meteor shower from the comet Giscobint-Zinner...
...Telescope the latest "astronomical facts concerning the end of the world": About a ton of pulverized meteorites fall on the earth's surface each day, do no damage. But, points out Coles, the famed 1908 meteorite that fell in northern Siberia showed what a meteor could do. It knocked forests flat for 30 miles, blew a man off his doorstep 50 miles away. Its roar was heard more than 400 miles...