Word: planet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...church Mary sounds like a gold-plated goddess. Mary the receptacle is not the representative of the very real female force alive on this planet...
Given the extraordinary interest in what Ali grandiloquently called "the biggest sporting event in the history of the whole planet earth," anything short of a slugfest would have been anticlimactic. The two heavyweights delivered-and so did the fans. TV hookups, which beamed the bout to 300 million viewers in 46 countries, pushed the total gate to a possible $20 million. According to Las Vegas bookies, the fight generated an estimated $1 billion in bets. On the big night, Madison Square Garden scalpers were demanding-and getting-$850 for a $150 ringside seat...
...reach the solar system's largest planet, a flight that could take two years or more. Pioneer F will have to survive a hazard never before encountered by a spacecraft: it will have to pass through the asteroid belt, which consists of some 50,000 asteroids that circle the sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. If Pioneer runs the rocky gauntlet successfully, the way will be cleared for further explorations of the outer planets by unmanned spacecraft making Grand Tours* later in the decade, as well as future flights by man himself. A serious accident...
These readings may help to explain some of Jupiter's more puzzling features. Except for the earth, it is the only planet believed to have a magnetic field. It is also producing a great quantity of heat, the origin of which is still a mystery. In addition, it has twelve satellites, three of which are larger than the earth's moon. By analyzing the radio signals that Pioneer emits just before it ducks behind one of the larger moons, possibly lo (pronounced eye-oh), scientists may be able to tell whether the satellite has an atmosphere...
Most intriguing of all, light measurements by Pioneer's imaging photo-polarimeter will enable computers on earth to construct about ten pictures of the planet that will show features as small as 250 miles across. Although the resolution is not much greater than that achieved by terrestrial telescopes, the pictures will be shot from glare-free angles completely unobtainable on earth...