Word: objections
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...keep track of the objects in space-and particularly to detect among them any "dark," or radio-silent, object that might house a nuclear weapon or pose some other threat-the U.S. has developed a highly sophisticated system of surveillance. Each object now in outer space is given its own number and meticulously tracked by radar sensors (which can follow an object as small as a .30-cal. rifle bullet 200 miles into space), computers and special cameras with a range of 50,000 miles. The North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) can tell where every object...
What if all or part of an orbiting object falls to earth and harms either property or persons? Nobody has yet been hit by a piece of falling space hardware, although four years ago a 20-lb. piece of Sputnik 4 plunked down on a street in Manitowoc, Wis. (It was duly returned to the Russians after being analyzed.) Because of the inherently high velocity of any object in orbit, most pieces of space junk are consumed in their fiery plunge through the earth's atmosphere. But as man launches more and more satellites and probes-the Japanese...
...newly identified object, designated ScoX-1 by astronomers, is in the Milky Way Galaxy; it is between 300 and 3,000 light-years from the earth, and could be about 100 million miles in diameter. Though it has some of the spectral characteristics of a nova, a star that suddenly flares up, the X-ray-emitting envelope of gas surrounding it is apparently not expanding. This leads Giacconi to speculate that ScoX-1 may be a cloud of gas condensing into an infant star, or an existing stellar system surrounded by a gas cloud. "Or," he says...
...Feria, Texas, seem different from any of the others-or from their countless cousins that thrive in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. But to thousands of Mexican-Americans in the area, one of Morse's 30-ft. acacias has suddenly become "God's tree," an object of awe and veneration. That particular acacia lost its anonymity in mid-July when a stream of tea-colored "water" began spewing from a knothole in a limb 25 ft. above the ground. Local Mexican-Americans soon saw religious significance in the "crying tree"; they began dropping by to touch...
Because of Lee's Oriental background and Milliken's medieval interests, the museum's strength lies largely in those two fields. But with the new acquisitions, Cleveland now has at least one object that is near the top in every department. They range from a 5th century B.C. Greek lekythos to a 1962 painting by Richard Lindner, an exquisite gilt bronze Standing Buddha to a Berlinghieri Madonna and Child. An extremely rare set of early Christian marbles portraying Jonah and the Good Shepherd makes an illuminating contrast with a hypnotic 15th century panel, St. John the Baptist...