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Clifford Frondel, a pioneering minerologist who was part of the team that first studied the moon rocks brought to earth by Apollo 11, died last Tuesday in Winchester, Mass., from complications due to Alzheimer’s disease...
Frondel, who taught at Harvard from 1939 to 1977 and served as chair of the geological sciences department for four years, was one of the preeminent minerologists of the twentieth century. His subjects ranged from moon rocks to kidney stones, and he was credited with discovering 48 minerals...
...glass formations were the result of particles striking the surface of the moon at high speed...
...wanted to reach the top the night of a full moon,” she says. “And starting off on the fourth of July, American Independence Day, might inspire people to sponsor...
PLAYING WITH FIRE In Mekong Full Moon Party, this year's surprise Thai hit film about the Naga fireballs, a hapless television journalist is desperate to expose the phenomenon as a hoax. A month after the movie's October release, Thai television station ITV screened a documentary claiming that the fireballs were merely AK-47 tracer rounds fired by bored Lao soldiers on the opposite bank of the river. Mere coincidence? Or are strange, dark forces at work...