Word: saturne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cancro Joyned." Astronomy helped Princeton Dean Robert K. Root settle one matter that had long tantalized Chaucerians: the date of Chaucer's Troilus and Crlseyde. Dean Root was struck by the passage: "The bente moone with hire homes pale,†Saturne, and Jove, in Cancro joyned were . . ." No astronomer, Dean Root suspected that such a conjunction of Saturn, Jupiter and the moon was no common occurrence. He was right: for the first time in 600 years, the planets had come together in the sign of Cancer in 1385. That, concluded Root, to the general applause of Chaucerians...
Applicants were to "check tour desired" -in the order of their distance: the moon (240,000 miles, 9½ hours); Venus, Mars, Jupiter, or Saturn (790 million miles, 1,333 days). The planetarium's "Passenger Briefing" warned that the moon is no such warm romantic place as it might seem over Miami, but rather a chill, arid spot, covered with a layer of dustlike pumice several feet thick, where conversation would be impossible, climate problematical, and locomotion difficult. While working up to a speed of 3,621 m.p.h., those with high blood pressure might suffer momentary blackouts...