Word: moons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chance to turn America around. A chance to use our energies and resources for cleaning up our environment, providing health care at a decent price for all, improving mass transit, rebuilding our cities, and achieving peace-rather than for destruction and waste, such as Viet Nam, adventures to the moon and space shuttles...
...barium particles formed into ionized clouds that were used to study the movements of winds in the upper atmosphere and the shape of the earth's magnetic field. To the German public, Lüst is even better known for his lucid scientific commentaries over television during Apollo moon shots. That combination of talents may be highly productive. By using his influence with his fellow scientists as well as promoting greater public understanding for basic scientific research, Lüst could lead the Max Planck Society -and, indeed, all of German science -into new avenues of knowledge...
...that was blown apart, perhaps in a collision with a comet. Now astronomers are leaning to the idea that the asteroid belt consists of primordial matter that failed to coalesce into a full-fledged planet. If so, that could make an asteroid an even more valuable prize than any moon rock-assuming some far-ranging space traveler could bring it home. It would be a piece of material largely unchanged from the very beginnings of the solar system...
When the Giliaks of Sakhalin island and the Koryaks of Kamchatka rubbed the sleep out of their eyes one morning last week, they rubbed a second time and looked up in surprise: the rising sun was black. It was totally eclipsed by the moon. As eclipses go, this one had relatively few observers-at least of its totality. The path of complete blackout crossed the most sparsely inhabited wastes of Asia and North America, favoring only Canada's southeasternmost provinces before crossing the Atlantic to fizzle out at sunset near the Azores. Most big-city dwellers had to content...
...cloud cover was broken, and some of the observation sites had clear views. To run experiments that cannot be done through dense atmosphere, several scientific groups rocketed their instruments as high as 130 miles from Alaska's Poker Flat, White Sands, N. Mex., and East Quoddy, N.S. The moon's shadow raced across Canada at a speed around 2,000 m.p.h., so chasing it at anything below Mach 2 could not be very productive. But one group, headed by Dr. Arthur Cox of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, took off from Spokane in a jet transport, intercepted...