Word: planet
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Ordinary meteorites are believed to be bits of a "lost planet" that revolved in an orbit between Mars and Jupiter. For some reason, it broke up and filled the solar system with large and small debris. Nickel-iron meteorites are thought to be fragments of its dense interior, while stony meteorites are made of lighter material from near the planet's surface...
According to Stair's theory, tektites came from the lost planet too. He thinks that on its surface was light, glassy material that had separated like cream as the heavier metal and rock sank toward the center of the planet. This separation may have happened on the earth too, but water erosion destroyed the glass...
...lost planet there was no water, so the glass on its surface survived until the final breakup. Then chunks of it sailed around the solar system along with chunks of metal and rock. When they hit the earth's atmosphere, the glass shattered into small fragments as soon as it began to get hot. The fragments fell to earth as tektites. When a fragment had the right shape to keep it from tumbling as it moved through the air, the molten glass that was wiped off the forward end frequently solidified as "wings" or an "apron" attached...
American listeners have a chance to feast their ears on their native brand of electronic composition on the sound track of MGM's science-fiction extravaganza, Forbidden Planet (TIME, April 9). Composed and recorded by Manhattan's husband-and-wife team, Louis and Bebe Barron, it could hardly sound more appropriate. Its basic elements are a kind of trickling-water sound; a zipping effect, as if somebody were running his thumbnail along a comb; a high, ominous thrumming, something like the sound telegraph wires make when the pole is struck; a frightful, featureless roaring; and an effect that...
Forbidden Planet. A spring cruise at the speed of light to Altair-4-a small, out-of-the-way planet with two moons, green sky, pink sand, personal robot service (TIME, April...