Word: meteors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Merrihue started his research by cadging a 4-lb. chunk of the stony Bruderheim meteorite that fell in Canada in 1960. He crushed it carefully and separated 14 chondrules from the debris. Then he ground the remainder and purified a sample of meteor material until it was free of chondrule fragments. He heated both samples separately and measured the amount of xenon gas that was driven out of them. The chondrules, he found, contained considerably more xenon 129 than the rest of the meteor...
...will be to land (at 100 m.p.h.) a package of tough instruments on the moon. A temperature-sensing device will report the moon's horribly hot and cold climate over a tiny radio, and a seismometer will feel the ground for moon-quakes or shocks caused by meteor impacts...
FORD, for the first time, will offer Falcon and Comet convertibles. Falcon sedans will take on the Thunderbird's crisp roof line. The intermediate Fairlane and Meteor will add station wagon models and both will change their grilles, the Fairlane from flat to concave and the Meteor to a forward thrust. The standard-size Galaxie will have its massive circular taillights set into cylindrically sculptured rear fenders in a kind of twin jet effect. So that customers can tell a Mercury from a Ford, the Monterey will boast a reverse-sloping rear window that can be opened and shut...
...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...