Word: orbital
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fred L. Whipple, instructor in Astronomy, has discovered a new comet and with the help of an assistant has computed its orbit, it was announced at the Observatory yesterday. The comet was discovered by accident on a photographic plate taken with the 16 inch refracting telescope at the Oak Ridge observatory in Harvard, Massachusetts...
...point of departure for a broad and far-reaching decision. He declared that the power of disbarment exists in the judicial branch of the Government, independent of any constitutional or statutory grant. Said he: "It is not always easy to determine what objects are naturally within the range or orbit of a particular department of government, but it will scarcely be denied that a primary object essentially within the orbit of the judicial department is that courts properly function in the administration of justice . . . and in the light of judicial history they cannot long continue to do this without power...
...bundles which he called quanta. Furthermore these bundles did not proceed through space continuously, but by jumps. It was not long before experimenters were finding this lumpiness and jerkiness everywhere. Albert Einstein used it to explain photoelectric action. Subatomic explorers found that atoms had only a fixed number of orbits in which their electrons might travel; that the electrons jumped from one orbit to another with emission or reception of energy exactly equaling one or more quanta...
Since Il Papa and Il Duce settled their differences with the Lateran Treaty (TIME, Feb. 18, 1929, et ante), His Holiness has had no need to consider himself any longer "The Prisoner of the Vatican," but he is widening his orbit of movement with extreme circumspection. One day last week he set out soon after dawn to make a second visit to high, cool Castel Gandolfo, a Papal property in which most Romans expect Pius XI eventually to summer. As His Holiness whizzed along with his Master of Ceremonies suddenly POW !-a tire blew...
...light years away from the earth (a light year is about 6,000,000,000 miles), illuminates the Century of Progress Exhibition each evening. An automatic lecture on the Perseoid meteor shower which can be seen every August when the earth passes through the certain point in her orbit, will follow later in the evening. The meteors are called Perseoids, because they appear to come from the direction of the constellation, Perseus, which forms with Andromeda, an over lasting dramatic picture in the skies. In November, the earth passes through another belt and is bombarded by meteors from the direction...