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Newton's laws dictate that the farther a planet is from the sun, the slower will be its speed in orbit. The planet Jupiter (fifth from the sun), for example, moves much more slowly than the earth (third from the sun). The same rules should apply to the billions of stars revolving around the central cores of distant galaxies, or to one galaxy revolving around another. In measuring the rotational velocity of the stars or galaxies, however, astronomers have discovered a perplexing fact: when the total observable mass of the galaxies is taken into account, the stars...
Voyages around this shrunken planet are not all they are cut out to be. "The friendly skies" are anything but nowadays, as people claw for dwindling seats on jets, ticket prices soar, and the plastic fantastic atmosphere on board commercial airliners distinctly resembles that of a swingles...
...Mars moved into a favorable position last summer, the Russians sent four unmanned space ships on six-month voyages toward the Red Planet...
Despite that mishap, the multiple Mars mission may well be successful. According to the Russians, Mars 4 came within 1,400 miles of Mars, close enough to take an undisclosed number of pictures. Furthermore, the two remaining probes-Mars 6 and 7-have yet to make then" rendezvouswith the planet...
Geffen, the 30-year-old president of Elektra-Asylum Records, is not complaining. The tour will help boost sales of Dylan's new Asylum album, Planet Waves, which already has become a Gold Record ($1 million in sales at the manufacturer's level). Two other new Geffen productions, Joni Mitchell's Court and Spark, and Carly Simon's Hotcakes, were gilded last month in their first week on the market. Since the recent downfall of Clive Davis as president of Columbia Records, Geffen has emerged as the financial superstar of the $2 billion pop music industry...