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...instruments into IGY headquarters in Washington and other official centers, in an ever-increasing flood. Analysis of the reports is a long, painstaking business, but already some of the data have been made public. The Explorer's orbit has been pinpointed fairly accurately (see diagram). According to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory at Cambridge, Mass., it crosses the equator at an angle of 33.5°, and takes 115 minutes to complete a circuit of the earth. The Smithsonian scientists do not think this figure will change appreciably for about seven years. Other early reports showed...
...chances are that only people with very good eyesight, who live in favorable places, will ever see the Explorer with the naked eye. It is too small. In any case, says Dr. Fred Whipple, head of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory at Cambridge, it will only be visible while its elliptical orbit is carrying it over the U.S. at low altitude. When the high part of the orbit has shifted over the U.S. the satellite will be too faint to be seen without instruments...
...friend. Aroused by Whistler's love for Oriental art, Freer began to decorate his home with Japanese scrolls, Korean metalworks, Chinese bronzes. He made frequent trips to the Orient, bought only the best. In 1904 he offered his whole collection to the Government with two conditions: that the Smithsonian Institution would manage it and that he could keep it until his death. He set up a trust fund to expand the Oriental collections (he prohibited expanding his American art), then gave another $1,000,000 for a Freer Gallery building. He died 18 months before the building was completed...
After Washington's Smithsonian Institution agreed to schedule and route the exhibit, museums in Kansas City, Detroit, New York, Toronto, Dallas and Los Angeles signed up. But several museums politely turned down the show, and the argument was on. Said Pittsburgh's assistant director of the Carnegie Institute, Leon A. Arkus: "I understand Mr. Churchill is a terrific bricklayer too, but nobody is exhibiting bricks this season." Cincinnati Art Museum Director Philip R. Adams added: "Such exhibits throw off the whole public approach to art. This is 'Churchill art,' not just art. We have to defend...
...spokesman for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory said the man-made moon was first sighted at 6:28:38 p.m. and was visible until...