Word: moons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mixed up with the theater. After graduation from drama school (with a first prize), he joined the famed Comedie-null soon left the formal atmosphere to become, at 26, Paris' youngest theatrical director. Stressing dazzle in his productions, he brought Paris such musical shows as Show Boat, New Moon and, lately, Annie du Far-West...
...such imaginative pioneers Mars is not very interesting, but astronomers feel differently. Except for the unrewarding Moon, Mars is the only object in the sky whose surface can be studied. Mercury is too close to the sun, Pluto is too far from the' earth, and the other planets are hidden in clouds. Fascinating things may exist, for instance, beneath the white cloud deck of Venus, but no astronomer hopes to catch a glimpse of them...
...case, it would spend nearly half its time in the shadow of the earth, where it would be invisible. Most of the rest of the time it would be passing over the sunlit earth, and would look no brighter at best than a tiny fragment of the moon as seen by day. Best time to look for a small satellite would be at dawn or dusk, when it would be shining brightly above the dim-lit earth...
...satellite near the earth would have to move very fast to keep itself out of the clutches of the earth's gravitation, and its speed would make it doubly hard to spot. A miniature moon 1,000 miles above the earth would whiz around the earth in about two and a half hours, too fast for its image to be caught by ordinary photographic plates. Best way to catch it would be with a swinging telescopic camera turned to match its speed. Thousands of small areas in the sky must be examined and completion of such a search could...
...Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon, a small satellite of the earth disturbed the course of the space ship and almost kept it from ever returning to earth...