Word: reinmuth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last October 28 a German astronomer, Dr. Karl Reinmuth of Heidelberg, noticed a faint white streak against the dark background of an astronomical photograph. A similar streak was discovered on a plate exposed at Johannesburg in South Africa. Such streaks reveal small, comparatively nearby objects moving across the sky at high speeds as contrasted with the relatively fixed positions of the stars. This wanderer, christened "Object Reinmuth 1937 U. B.," appeared to be several miles in diameter.* Its orbit was calculated from the streaks. Last week, after all danger was past, Johannesburg astronomers announced that in October the earth...
...closest approach "Object Reinmuth" sped within 400,000 miles of Earth, which is less than twice the distance of the moon. Collision with one of these small planets or asteroids which lope around the solar system is a perennial theme with lurid fictionists, but mathematical chances against the occurrence are extremely high because of the great distances o space. If a body the size of ''Object Reinmuth" struck this globe it would not only annihilate everything at the site of impact but cause a tremendous earthquake and fires which would destroy life and property hundreds of miles away...
...little more than a month after Dr. Delporte found the Delporte Object only ten million miles away and while astronomers were calculating its nature, Dr. Reinmuth found his Object only eight million miles away. It may at times come within 4,350,000 mi. of Earth. Only heavenly things known to have ever approached closer were the regular PonsWinnecke comet (3,500,000 mi., June 27, 1927) and the vanished Lexell comet (1,500,000 mi. in 1770). Another point: the Reinmuth Object swung within the Earth's orbit. Only the Moon and an occasional comet head have been...
...developed short mathematical formulae to describe the courses of planetoids and comets. He matches the curves of the new orbits supplied him to the curves of his formulae. Last week he and other astronomers who had checked over his work were generally agreed that both Delporte's and Reinmuth's Objects were planetoids...
...distance is all important. It is the Astronomical Unit, the measuring stick of the Universe. The average Earth-Sun distance has been accepted as 92,897,400 mi., triangulated from the Earth-Eros baseline. This may be 50,000 to 100,000 mi. wrong. Use of the Earth-Reinmuth Object baseline, said Dr. Edwin Brant Frost, blind retiring director of the Yerkes Observatory at Williams Bay, Wis., will reduce the error to within 10,000 mi., or about twice the longitudinal distance from Washington to Rome...