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...Beyond Pluto. Though Ikeya-Seki is the fourth new comet to be discovered this year, and there are some 1,700 already on record, astronomers are still not sure exactly what comets consist of. For centuries they were objects of excitement and superstition, often feared as precursors of grave and cataclysmic events. Today some astronomers speculate that comets are the debris flung off by larger planets out beyond the earth. The most widely accepted theory holds that a vast cloud completely surrounds the solar system. According to Fred Whipple of the Smithsonian Observatory, about 4.6 billion years ago the cloud...
...will collide with the sun. But it could be broken up by the sun's radiation and gravitational field. If it survives its solar encounter, the comet discovered by a piano-key polisher and a guitar instructor will then disappear into the nether reaches of space-considerably beyond Pluto-and will not come hack into view for some 500 to 1,000 years...
...week were telling tens of thousands of their anxious clients to watch their step in 1965. This is the traditional time for the credulous to pay from $10 to $100 for private consultations, and the zodiacal word was ominous: This year's conjunction of the planets Uranus and Pluto forming in Virgo in opposition to Saturn in Pisces can play hob with everything from De Gaulle's plan for a French-dominated Europe to Brigitte Bardot's love life. The last time Uranus and Pluto ganged up on Saturn was about 1200 B.C.-and everyone knows...
...other student poems are generally clearer, but so slight as to be almost non-existent. The sentence, "The bright sun of dance makes no/moon of him, he receives the light/an asteroid past Pluto," which appears in Gavin Borden's "Marriage," must rank as the least happy of the issue...
...great Dane ranging through the cornfields. But for speed, range, endurance and nose, no dog matches the pointer. A good pointer can scent a bird 100 yds. away. He will hold a quivering point for half an hour or more, and once a pair of pointers named Juno and Pluto stood frozen for a full hour and a quarter while an artist painted their portraits...