Word: mi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cause for speculation and calculation arose from the celestially minute sizes of the Delporte and Reinmuth Objects (about three miles diameter) and from their unexpected locations. The Delporte Object was only ten million miles from Earth. The Sun is 92,897,400 mi. away. Venus (nearest planet) is 25 million miles at its nearest. The big, 20-mi.-in-diameter planetoid Eros approaches to 13,800,000 mi. Nothing planetary it seemed could come closer to Earth...
...little more than a month after Dr. Delporte found the Delporte Object only ten million miles away and while astronomers were calculating its nature, Dr. Reinmuth found his Object only eight million miles away. It may at times come within 4,350,000 mi. of Earth. Only heavenly things known to have ever approached closer were the regular PonsWinnecke comet (3,500,000 mi., June 27, 1927) and the vanished Lexell comet (1,500,000 mi. in 1770). Another point: the Reinmuth Object swung within the Earth's orbit. Only the Moon and an occasional comet head have been...
...that they might help measure distances between Earth and other heavenly bodies which regularly return to a particular spot. The Earth-Sun distance is all important. It is the Astronomical Unit, the measuring stick of the Universe. The average Earth-Sun distance has been accepted as 92,897,400 mi., triangulated from the Earth-Eros baseline. This may be 50,000 to 100,000 mi. wrong. Use of the Earth-Reinmuth Object baseline, said Dr. Edwin Brant Frost, blind retiring director of the Yerkes Observatory at Williams Bay, Wis., will reduce the error to within 10,000 mi., or about...
...Uccle outside Brussels. * Satellite Phoebe (200 mi. diam.) is 8,034,000 mi. from its planet Saturn; Satellites Sixth (100 mi.) & Seventh (40 mi.) are 7,200,000 and Satellites Eighth (40 mi.) and Ninth (20 mi.) are 14,750,000 mi. from their Planet Jupiter...
This spring amazing accounts began reaching the U. S. from Mr. Wees describing the miseries which he encountered in a neighborhood about 700 mi. west of Rio de Janeiro and 700 mi. north of Buenos Aires: "We spent days and nights hunting and when we shot nothing we were hungry in a forest of game. Braised alligator tail tastes like flaked codfish. Here spider webs enmesh birds. Ants drive us from our hammocks into a circle of ashes. The hordes of insects for which the region does not provide a living cause us night after night of sleeplessness. One especially...