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...revelations from the Bruce plates include the faint ninth satellite of Saturn, Phoebe, numerous characteristics of the Magellanic Clouds, the discovery in them of 2000 variables and the "Period Luminosity" relation (one of the most efficient measuring tapes for the scale of the universe). At least 30,000 spiral nebulse have also been located by means of the Bruce Telescope...
Also in the U. S. are a large number of students of space-flight who have formed the American Interplanetary Society. At their meetings they discuss current experiments, also proposed flights to the moon, to Mars, to Saturn, and regular passenger service across the Atlantic at 30 mi. altitudes in three hours, two hours, even a half hour. Most working rocketeers (unlike the superenthusiastic Esnault-Pelterie who foresees a trip to the moon in 20 years) are wary about making predictions...
...ellipse whose distance from the sun varies between 5,000 and 9,000 million mi.) but its diameter (44,000 mi.). It is twice as far from the sun as far-flung Pluto, is the third most massive of the sun's family, exceeded only by Jupiter and ringed Saturn. Its sidereal period: 656 years...
...Harvard. In 1891 he located the Harvard observatory at Arequipa, Peru, spent the following two years measuring the big Peruvian mountains. He built the Flagstaff station and the one at which he now works in Jamaica. Only one astral unit is definitely his discovery (Phoebe, the ninth satellite of Saturn), but he has a claim on the as yet unrecognized tenth satellite Themis...
father of truth? Solution: Is it not the reason that, some philosophers believe that Saturn is the same with time and TIME FINDS OUT TRUTH...