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...Below Zero Sirs: Then there is the story of the old farmer, who, when the family clock by some disarrangement struck 13, remarked that he had never known it to be so late before. It will be new to our physicists that the surface temperature of Saturn is about 750° below zero Centigrade, so far below the accepted determination of the absolute zero at 273° (TIME...
Indignant snorts on behalf of two amateur astronomers went up in London and in Potsdam as the ringed planet Saturn last week placidly continued to whirl in & out of Earthling's sight the great spot which last fortnight erupted on its protuberant belly (TIME, Aug. 14). Washington's Naval Observatory, their snorts made it appear, had not kept the spot under observation for a seemly length of time after Astronomer John Edwin Willis sighted it. The British Astronomical Association said that one Will Hay, music-hall comedian and amateur stargazer, had spotted the spot 26 hours before Astronomer...
...spot was observed to rotate precisely in the schedule determined for the planet by the late Professor Asaph Hall (10 hr. 14 min. 24 sec.), it could not be a drifting cloud, might be a volcanic eruption in a fixed area. To still others a volcano on cold Saturn seemed hardly more imaginable than spontaneous combustion in a snowball.* Still an enigma is Saturn's canker...
...Recent measurements at Mt. Wilson put Saturn's surface temperature at about 750° below zero centigrade...
...Saturn is comparatively difficult to observe because it, least dense of the solar system's planets, has a vaporous, clouded surface, and because its rapid rotation (roughly once every ten hours) wheels surface phenomena quickly out of sight...