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...example, he played a key role in the verification of the planet Uranus's rings. While it has long been known that a ring of material encircles Saturn, scientists only speculated that Uranus has its own set of rings. In 1977, MIT astronomer James Elliot, working in the Indian Ocean, observed the planet as it passed in front of a star. The star suddenly grew dim then bright five consecutive times-concrete evidence of rings...
Arthur Rudolph was one of 118 top German scientists, including his longtime friend Wernher von Braun, who were secretly brought to the U.S. at the end of World War II. Later made manager of the Saturn V project in Huntsville, Ala., he led the development of the rocket that first took men to the moon. An American citizen since 1954, Rudolph was honored by NASA in 1969 with its most prestigious award, the Distinguished Service Medal...
Other changes at GM pushed through by Smith are no less revolutionary. His small-car strategy is the most diversified of any U.S. automaker's. He has launched the company's Saturn Project to develop a 45-m.p.g. model by 1987. In addition, GM has created alliances with four Japanese automakers. It has made large investments in both Isuzu and Suzuki, and expects to import 300,000 of their cars. Its agreement with Toyota to produce 250,000 cars annually in Fremont, Calif., was approved last month by the Federal Trade Commission. And GM has also quietly arranged...
...cosmic debris, consisting of dust and gases, out of which all stars as well as their families of planets are apparently formed. IRAS'S sensors indicated that the temperature of this free-floating matter was a chilly -300° F, about the same as that of Saturn's innermost rings, which are made of small chunks of matter. Further calculations showed that individual particles in the mass surrounding Vega had to be at least the size of buckshot; as the astronomers noted, anything smaller would already have been drawn into Vega by its powerful gravity. Only larger clumps...
...through some ground-based telescopes based in Hawaii. Giovanni G. Facio, lecturer on Astronomy, said that he planned to use a trip to an observatory on the Pacific Island this past weekend to see if he could visually site the particles, which he said might resemble the rings around Saturn...