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...Russian object has decayed, leaving the total number of man made objects in the sky at a mere 1515. Tonight will be the peak of the Taurid meteor shower which will appear to radiate from the constellation Taurus high in the southeastern...
...pictures showed 70 clearly distinguishable craters ranging in diameter from three miles to 75 miles; a few appeared to be rimmed with frost. If the Mariner sampling is representative, Mars may have at least 10,000 craters of the size shown in the pictures, compared with fewer than 200 meteor craters that can still be seen on Earth. - The planet's pock-marked surface, judging by what is already known of the moon's face, must be ancient-perhaps 2 billion to 5 billion years old-and well preserved. Scientists infer that Mars has never had a significant...
Writing in Nature, Physicist Clyde Cowan of Catholic University of America, along with Geophysicist Chandra Atluri and Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Willard Libby of U.C.L.A., offer the most ingenious theory so far. After disposing of previous guesses (If it was a meteor, where is the crater? If it was a comet, why was it not seen approaching?), Libby & Co. suggest that what caused the big bang may well have been a hunk of antimatter that must have wandered into the solar system from some distant galaxy...
...best Ranger photographs, explained O'Keefe in teh magazine Science, show a region covered by broad, light-colored streaks radiating from the craters Copernicus and Tycho. These rays are believed to be dust and fragments tossed out by teh meteor impacts that blasted the two craters, and since they lie on top of most other lunar features, they are listed among the youngest parts of the moonscape. But O'Keefe also found a conspicuous black mark showing starkly against the lighter background of one of Tycho's rays. The ray had not dusted the mark with light...
...wreck is credibly contrived. While circling Mars on a reconnaissance mission, the astronaut (Paul Mantee) changes course to avoid a meteor and so falls deep into the planet's field of force. To escape eventual incineration, he ejects his capsule and plunges down into a scene of staring desolation. Hell-hot by day and by night pole-cold, the Mars of the movie supports no visible life and very little atmosphere. However, the astronaut does not expect to be there very long. From the wreck of his capsule he rescues food for 60 days, water for five days, oxygen...