Word: saturn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...revolve around the "kernel" of the atom. No one has been able to work out a satisfactory path for these paired electronic orbits, but that fact does not bother the chemists so much as the physicists. Instead of a general orbit for all, like the rings of Saturn, each pair of electrons probably has an independent orbit...
Several opportunities will be offered, if weather conditions permit, for members of the University to use the equipment of the Harvard College Observatory and the Astronomical Laboratory for observing Jupiter and Saturn. Tonight and Friday night from 8 until 10 o'clock, the Astronomical Laboratory on Jarvis Street will be open to members of the University and their friends...
Between 7.30 and 9 o'clock tonight the public has been invited to study the planet Saturn, before a lecture by Dr. W. J. Luten on "The Nearest Stars", at the Harvard College Observatory on Concord Avenue, opposite Huntington Street...
...celesta; novelty upon novelty appeared, not loud and startling, but only to the careful listener. Plainly Mr. Holst is not interested in strange noises per se but only as they contribute to the effect of the whole. So he used muted harp and chime in unison, in "Saturn--Bringer of Old Age" with marked success. A much talked of organ glissando proved hardly noticeable, and almost a complete dud. The orchestra has rarely received such an ovation as it did after this piece; even from the floor came loud clapping. MacDowell's Indian Suite completed the program. It proved hardly...
...south at sundown is Jupiter, the brightest object in its neighborhood. A short distance to the west of Jupiter is Saturn. These two planets may be distinguished from the bright star Spica, which lies below Jupiter and Saturn and a little to the eastward, by the steadiness of the light emitted,--a characteristic feature of planets as compared with the more distant stars. Jupiter and Saturn are the two largest planets of the solar system, and are well situated for observation with telescopes of moderate size...