Word: objectional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problem is to pin down in time and space an object travelling around the earth at about 18,000 miles per hour in an orbit constantly being changed by the earth's gravitational pull. Until last October, Whipple had expected that this object would be the American earth satellite planned to be launched as a project for the International Geophysical Year...
...early hours of the next morning, several observation teams had reported sightings, but they were contradictory as to both time of sighting and direction of the object, and later that day Whipple conceded that they must have been "slow-moving meteors" taken as the satellite by enthusiastic spotters...
...improve upon the original until the Institute decided that it was no longer part of its purpose to maintain the old machine as merely a laboratory instrument. Thus, in the summer of this year, the computer was turned over to Princeton University. It had ceased to be an object of "advanced study...
...three dollars that I object to," argued one cadet, "but it's the idea that this department is pressuring you into joining an extracurricular activity--and if you don't, it will be reflected in the department's attitude toward...
...cautioned, however, that the object will be difficult to see as it will be at the lowest point in its orbit and will cover the field of vision in less than a minute...