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...black void. Apollo 9 Astronaut Russell Schweickart has a somewhat different view. In an interview in Co-Evolution Quarterly, a magazine devoted to ecology, Schweickart says, among other things, that perhaps the most beautiful sight in space is a urine dump. A urine dump? It seems that when orbiting astronauts release into space their voided urine, the liquid instantly freezes into millions of tiny ice crystals, which form a hemisphere and spray out in all directions from the exit nozzle. The same thing would happen to ordinary water, but none is ever dumped; it is all recycled through the spacecraft...
Kowal's observations indicate the object is between 160 and 640 kilometers (100 and 400 miles) in diameter-larger than most of the asteroids that orbit between Mars and Jupiter, but far tinier than the smallest of the nine planets, Mercury. It orbits the sun in the same plane as the planets and is currently about 1.5 billion miles from earth. Depending upon whether its orbital path is nearly circular or highly elliptical, the object could take anywhere from 60 to several hundred years to complete a single circuit...
...tend to favor the idea that it's in a nearly circular orbit just inside the orbit of Uranus," he said. He added if the orbit is circular it is probably stable, suggesting the object has existed in its present orbit for a long time...
...longer has to worry about Maman's comments. But in the French fashion industry's showings of spring clothes last week, some of her new numbers did not seem calculated to endear her to too many other women ?though they should cause countless male eyes to go into orbit and may well tie up traffic wherever?or if ?they are worn. The most spectacular clothes Rykiel exhibited feature necklines that do not plunge: they go over the brink, leaving the bosom bare, out there...
Weekes believes that in most cases psychoanalysis is the wrong approach. She has found that prolonged stress or shock?a death, divorce or birth ?can turn ordinary anxiety into a flash of panic. Then, she says, "the fear that it will recur keeps a person within a restricted orbit. What's the use of looking into that person's childhood for an explanation...