Word: moone
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...computer yielded some tantalizing results. Many of the Stonehenge alignments accurately pointed to the summer and winter solstice positions of the rising and setting sun and moon -the extreme north and south latitudes reached only on midsummer day and on midwinter day, the shortest day in the year. Thus, the early Britons were able to determine, for instance, that winter had started on the one day a year that the rising sun was entirely visible just on the horizon through two specific, carefully aligned arches. Additional plotting revealed that alignment of other stones had pinpointed equinoctial positions of the rising...
Mysterious Circle. Hawkins believes that Stonehenge astronomy was so advanced that its experts had apparently noted a phenomenon undetected even by modern astronomers: eclipses of the moon occur in cycles of 56 years. Hawkins, who inadvertent'v rediscovered the cycle after running Stonehenge eclipse data throuah a computer, immediately associated it with a mysterious circle of 56 "Aubrey" holes that ring the massive arches. He concluded that the holes formed a primitive eclipse computer. By placing a stone in each of six appropriate holes and moving them at appropriate times one hole around the circle, he decided, the Stonehenge...
...enhance their power. On the day or night that their stone computer predicted an eclipse, they might well have summoned their subjects to Salisbury Plain to observe a spectacle that terrorized most ancient peoples. When the eclipse started, the priests probably intoned the prayers that enabled the sun or moon to escape the blackness...
Five times as luminous as a full moon, Ikeya-Seki lived up to its advance billing as one of the brightest comets of the century. Japanese astronomers boast that they snapped the clearest daylight pictures ever taken of a comet. Because of its close brush with the sun, Ikeya-Seki heated to an intensity that was easily recorded in detail by spectrographs, which gave scientists their strongest evidence so far of comet ingredients. Preliminary readings have already detected sodium, ionized calcium, iron, nickel, copper and potassium. Last week James Westfall, a young Caltech scientist, reported that his infrared observations...
...empathetic exercise, Blood on the Doves is profoundly frightening and enlightening; as a literary experiment, it is even more remarkable-a triumphant attempt to develop a surreal subject in a cubistic style. The previous novels (Victorine, Honey on the Moon) of Author Maude Hutchins, former wife of former Chancellor Robert M. Hutchins of the University of Chicago, have established her reputation as a richly ironical imagist. Here, however, she has performed the impossible: she has transformed accurate psychiatry into living literature...