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Astronomers take the atomic bomb in stride. They know there are more terrible ways in which this planet might be destroyed. Last week Astronomer Robert Coles of the Hayden Planetarium summed up, in Sky and Telescope the latest "astronomical facts concerning the end of the world": About a ton of pulverized meteorites fall on the earth's surface each day, do no damage. But, points out Coles, the famed 1908 meteorite that fell in northern Siberia showed what a meteor could do. It knocked forests flat for 30 miles, blew a man off his doorstep 50 miles away...
...theorists spun their theories, two extra-large sunspots crept across the sun. The spots were many times bigger than the earth, big enough to be seen through plain smoked glass. Asked if they would tangle up earth's radios, Astronomer Robert Coles of Manhattan's Hayden Planetarium said, with a gleam in his eye, that "he would not be surprised...
...Manhattan, weeping housewives called the Hayden Planetarium to ask if two planets were about to collide. Flib-bertygibbets in other U.S. cities got ready for the final bang...
Ping-Pong Gun, Portable Planetarium. The air branches of the services became the prime movers in the synthetic devices program. They have invented thousands of efficient gadgets, many of them still secret, ranging from a cardboard pocket blinker for practicing ship signals to a portable planetarium. Some others...
Although a citizen of the Netherlands, de Jonge came here from Switzerland, where his father directed a sanatorium for mental diseases. Previous to his enrollment here, the young Dutchman had built a planetarium of his own in Switzerland, and he selected Harvard because of the excellent facilities offered by the University Observatory...