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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...
...University of Chicago presented bis own neo-Kantian hypothesis. Basing his reasoning on hydrodynamic data, Kuiper concluded that the cloud around the nascent sun passed through a stage with about one-third of the system's matter forming a thin, pancake-shaped disc like the rings of Saturn. The disc, said Kuiper, grew denser and denser until it became unstable and broke into whirling eddies...
...proto-planets" (as Kuiper calls the eddies) condensed into planets, each with a disc of loose material around it. Then the planets' discs turned into satellites. One planet, Saturn, retains part of its disc as the famous rings...
...Roosevelt's plaque shares the wall by the west door with a statue of Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy, 1666-1732; a statue to William Pitt the Younger; a memorial to Jeremiah Horrocks, d. 1641 (who "detected the long inequality in the mean motion of Jupiter and Saturn"), and one to the seventh Earl of Shaftesbury...
Later, when the stars came out over Palomar, the guests too got a peek-at Saturn, which looked like a bright silver dollar amidst its moons and rings. Apparently it took imagination to make much out of it: the New York World-Telegram headlined its story THE SHOW'S A FLOP, but New York Times Science Reporter William L. Laurence wrote that he had been "dazzled by a new radiance from the light of distant stars...