Word: planeters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harlow Shapley: An astronomer of renown, whose spirit, searching for the centre of the universe and the nature of the ultra-galactic nebulac, chafes at observing only from this paltry planet...
...Simonson, the third of the trio of the "older generation" of stage designers has exhibited sketches for the play, "Red Planet" which opens in New York Thursday, and some amusing costume designs for "Le Pas d'Acier," a satirical ballet...
...fatalist, Ortega y Gasset, searcher for the truth about Western civilization, believes that something may still be done with the truth when it is found. A yea-saver, his gloomiest proph ecy is still hopeful in a sardonic Spanish way: ''Before long there will be heard throughout the planet a formidable cry, rising like the howling of innumerable dogs to the stars, asking for someone or some thing to take command, to impose an occupation, a duty...
Cause for speculation and calculation arose from the celestially minute sizes of the Delporte and Reinmuth Objects (about three miles diameter) and from their unexpected locations. The Delporte Object was only ten million miles from Earth. The Sun is 92,897,400 mi. away. Venus (nearest planet) is 25 million miles at its nearest. The big, 20-mi.-in-diameter planetoid Eros approaches to 13,800,000 mi. Nothing planetary it seemed could come closer to Earth...
...Uccle outside Brussels. * Satellite Phoebe (200 mi. diam.) is 8,034,000 mi. from its planet Saturn; Satellites Sixth (100 mi.) & Seventh (40 mi.) are 7,200,000 and Satellites Eighth (40 mi.) and Ninth (20 mi.) are 14,750,000 mi. from their Planet Jupiter...