Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "To the Moon," with Walter Cronkite...
...other areas. As Budget Director Charles Schultze sees it, the most likely targets are the Federal Highway program, public-works projects by the Corps of Engineers, other construction spending that can be stretched out or deferred. In the U.S. space program, the effort to put a man on the moon will not be affected, but post-Apollo projects are likely to be slowed down. Few potential economies have been overlooked: the President expects to save $8,000,000 a year with a regulation that Government autos be driven for seven years, or 72,000 miles, instead of six years...
...photographed Saturn through a telescope at the Paris Observatory's Meudon station. When the plates were developed, he detected on several of them a tiny spot of light only about 52,000 miles from the planet's surface. Reasonably confident that he had found a tenth Saturnian moon, he promptly telegraphed news of his discovery to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, the world's clearing house for celestial discoveries...
...Observatory's Flagstaff station examined Saturn photographs that he had taken on the night of December 18. On four of his plates he found what looked like a tiny droplet superimposed on the edge-on rings. The confirmation of the discovery will entitle Dollfus to name the new moon. If he abides by tradition established in identifying Saturn's moons, he will pick the name of a mythological character associated with Saturn, a Roman god of agriculture...
Astronomers estimate that the new moon orbits Saturn once every 18 hours and is between 100 and 200 miles in diameter. It is thus slightly larger than Saturn's smallest moon (Phoebe) but dwarfed by the largest (Titan), which is 2,900 miles in diameter-nearly as large as the planet Mercury. Despite the diminutive size of the new satellite, its gravity is probably strong enough to cause significant perturbations in the orbits of the countless tiny particles that constitute the nearby Saturnian rings. Thus, in conjunction with the gravitational pull of some of the other inner Saturnian moons...