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...south as the tip of South America. About 75% of that area is water, and much of the land is sparsely inhabited. Thus the danger is slight; NASA believes that "the probability of injury or damage is less than that from meteorites." Astronomer Brian Marsden of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory concurred, saying that there was really "nothing to worry about...
...grandfather, was a pioneer in providing employee benefits; he established a pension and hospitalization plan in 1934. In 1936 he commissioned from Architect Frank Lloyd Wright a now famous office building in Racine and in 1962 invested $750,000 to buy U.S. art, which is now housed in the Smithsonian Institution...
Other scientists were slightly more cautious. Larry Smarr of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics pointed out that the orbital reduction could have been caused by other influences, perhaps the tug of another unknown massive object. Still, Smarr and other astrophysicists seemed generally impressed. Said the University of Rochester's David Douglass, who was handing out buttons in Munich saying GRAVITY WAVES DO EXIST: "It is quite unlikely that Taylor's claim will be disproved...
...tense silence filled Room 306-B at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (HSCFA) early yesterday morning as about 50 astronomers, students and friends listened to the final seconds of countdown before the launch of a satellite designed to probe the most distant recesses of the universe...