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...seven minutes by the plasma sheath. Laser light, if strong enough, can penetrate plasma, and Dr. Tomiyasu believes that returning space vehicles of the future, such as Apollo moon capsules or Dyna-Soar gliders, will use laser burst-communication to talk to the earth despite the flaming meteor trails around them...
Every so often, a trace of complex organic material discovered in a meteorite leads scientists to a romantic conclusion. Such chemical traces of life, they say, must mean that the meteor came from a place where life once existed. Most plausible spot: Planet No. 5, which some scientists believe revolved several billion years ago between Mars and Jupiter and later disintegrated to form the swarms of asteroids that now occupy the No. 5 orbit...
...launched on Aug. 12, 1960, and is still orbiting the earth. Echo A12 was not expected to orbit; its job was merely to expand in space and test a new kind of aluminized film that would stay rigid after the gas that blew up the balloon had escaped through meteor punctures...
...Meteor Streams. Bowen's long study of space dust began back in 1953, when he noticed that certain days of each year had abnormally high rainfall. In his search for an explanation, Bowen quickly eliminated the high and low pressure areas that meteorologists generally blame for rainfall. They appear too irregularly, and they never affect the whole earth in the same way at the same time. Bowen was more intrigued by the streams of meteors that the earth passes through on regular schedule. When he looked up the dates of known meteor showers, he found that they seemed...
Nowhere but Space. Bowen believes that the dust collected by the U-2s at 70,000 ft. could have come from nowhere but space. During meteor showers, he feels sure, the smallest meteoric particles hit the atmosphere softly and sink slowly toward earth. Larger meteors burn up, their smoke-fine debris sinking with the rest. The particles take about 30 days to reach the lower atmosphere, where they then turn clouds into rain...