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Astronomers at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Abservatory are not trying to "think up novel forces" to explain slight deviations in the orbital behavior of the Russian third stage rocket. These deviations have not been explainable thus far in terms of known forces acting on the object...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 14--A team of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory at Cambridge, Mass., was able to train telescopes and cameras for about a minute on the rocket which fired the Red satellite into space...
...orbit of the Russian earth satellite is being affected by some force not explained by the laws of gravity, according to a report yesterday by J. Allen Hynek, associate director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory...
Hynek revealed that information received from both the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington and a Smithsonian staff astronomer in California led to the conclusion that the satellite's orbital plane is apparently turning faster than expected as a result of this unknown force...
When the sputnik crossed the sky, it took U.S. satellite watchers by surprise. The Smithsonian Institution's Astrophysical Observatory at Cambridge, Mass., designed to correlate visual observations, was still unfinished. In spite of frantic efforts to make sense of reports flowing in from all over the country, its experts could not determine the sputnik's orbit until figures came from the Moscow radio...