Word: planet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...devoted his life to proving the theory of continental drift. In 1930 Wegener died in Greenland in a search for evidence. But other men were able to carry on where he left off. Today, with slight variations, the idea that the earth is a fragile and constantly changing planet is generally accepted by most geologists...
Books dealing with the formation of the earth usually move only slightly faster than the glaciers that helped landscape the surface of the planet (about 20 miles a millennium). Continents in Motion is a striking exception. Walter Sullivan, science editor of the New York Times, concentrates as much on people and events as upon geological epochs. The result is a book nearly as entertaining as a good detective story-and considerably more informative...
...idiot in a world riddled with starvation, you should present both sides. I have given a home to two abandoned dogs. They don't drink vodka; they don't sit at my table; they have no pedigrees, Marie Antoinette doghouses or caniscopes. In this crazy world-this planet governed by greed, indifference and masochism-I treasure my dogs as the last consistent remnants of love and compassion to grace my life...
...part of the solar system will take five years, but flight planners at NASA'S Ames Research Center have every reason to expect the 570-lb. nuclear-powered robot to survive the trip. If it does, it will send back closeup pictures and other data from the ringed planet. Of four Pioneers that were launched into solar orbit between 1965 and 1968 to monitor interplanetary space, all are still transmitting scientific data-even though they were designed by Pioneer's prime contractor, TRW Inc., to last only six months; only one is experiencing some difficulty with a solar...
...debris, some of which may be up to half a mile across. Otherwise, it will pass as close as 1,850 miles from Saturn's cloud tops (compared with 26,725 miles from Jupiter's). It will then be whipped around Saturn by the planet's powerful gravity and sent on a looping path toward Titan, Saturn's biggest moon. Even larger than the earth's moon, Titan may have an atmosphere and harbor some forms of life. To avoid risk of a collision that could contaminate Titan with earthly bugs, Pioneer will come...