Word: moons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even had closets leading to closets." But many of her choicest treasures were kept in her Ile St. Louis flat in Paris (see color pages). On the sales' opening day, a La Fresnaye cubist painting of garden tools brought $100,000. Chagall's Lovers and the Moon fetched $24,000, and the Bonnard landscape (see overleaf) sold...
...moon revolves around the earth, it passes through the magnetic tail once a month. The passage, which takes two or three days, occurs around the time when the moon is full, on the opposite side of the earth from the sun. Because the moon was full on April 5, only two days after Luna 10 went into lunar orbit, the Russians presumably detected an almost immediate rise in the number of electrons, then a sharp drop-off a few days later as the moon passed out of the tail...
...solar wind may also be responsible for the moon's magnetic field reported by Luna. Scientists believe that charged particles from the sun induce tiny electric currents in the moon. These, in turn, generate a weak magnetic field which-like the earth's-is probably distorted into a cometlike shape and may even have its own collection of energetic electrons for Luna to detect. The presence of these electrons would be characterized by a peak of radiation every three hours-each time Luna passed through the lunar tail on the antisolar side of the moon...
Luna's discovery of high concentrations of electrons near the lunar surface caused an immediate flurry of press reports about possible danger to future manned moon missions. These were quickly brushed aside as "unfounded speculation" by University of Iowa Physicist James Van Allen, discoverer of the earth's radiation belts. Electrons with the energies reported by Luna were so "soft," he said, that they "could not even penetrate a thick piece of tissue paper...
...like a scene from an early novel by Evelyn Waugh. An intellectual dandy, hardly a year out of Oxford and already weary of the world, dashed off a suicide note in classical Greek and then, as a mauve moon rose, swam wistfully out to sea. Not far out, however, his reveries of picturesque quietus were interrupted by a slight sting on his shoulder. A jellyfish! Shuddering in revulsion, he floundered to shore, jumped into his clothes and hurried home...