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...Pluto, the outermost planet of the solar system, is so small, dim and far away (3.7 billion miles) that astronomers have seen it only as a point of light like a star, have had to estimate its size by calculating the apparent effect of its gravitation upon the motion of Neptune. Measured in this indirect way, Pluto was thought by some to be almost as big as the earth. Last week Astronomer Gerard P. Kuiper of Yerkes Observatory, having measured Pluto's diameter with the 200-inch telescope on Palomar Mountain, announced that those estimates were probably wrong...
Using the great telescope visually (it is normally used as a camera), Dr. Kuiper caught Pluto on a night of unusually good "seeing." The disc was clear enough and steady enough to be measured with a special instrument. It proved to be only 3,600 miles in diameter. So Pluto has less than half the earth's diameter (7,920 miles) and is about one-tenth its mass. It is slightly larger than Mercury and considerably smaller than Mars, less than one five-hundredth the size of its neighbor Neptune (over 30,000 miles in diameter...
...Ingrid Bergman ("Uranus in wide opposition to her Sun at birth ... causes her to be unconventional and overemotional in her dealings with men"); Dean Acheson ("who should exercise extreme caution during ... June, July, and August . . ."); John L Lewis, "who will fare extremely well until April, when Jupiter squares his Pluto-Mars conjunction in the earthy sign of Taurus. This will cause him to become overconfident and his future to be black...
...players merely to be hitched to the pumpkin but full-blown Disney creations, scampering and squealing through the whole story in a chivalrous conspiracy to help Cinderella. Their fellow conspirators include birds, an amiable barnyard nag and a hound named Bruno, who is clearly a close relative of Pluto. Other new characters: a monocled, silly-ass grand duke and the villainous Lucifer, a spoiled, airily arrogant...
...business (it includes Standard Oil, Du Pont, General Mills, Armour meats, Life Savers). In Manhattan, Gimbels sold 2,000 pairs of Mickey Mouse sandals in one day; in Chicago, Marshall Field recently had a $10,000 day on $3 sweaters offering a choice of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck or Pluto...