Word: solar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flattop's Boy. In Trenton, Tenn., after an eight-hour police inspection, Minneapolis Tourist John Sward was allowed to proceed south in his 1942 Oldsmobile equipped with hot plate, fully stocked icebox, cooking utensils, groceries, bed, solar-heated water tank, showerbath, and, lashed to the roof, a bicycle for use in case of breakdowns...
Ordinary meteorites are believed to be bits of a "lost planet" that revolved in an orbit between Mars and Jupiter. For some reason, it broke up and filled the solar system with large and small debris. Nickel-iron meteorites are thought to be fragments of its dense interior, while stony meteorites are made of lighter material from near the planet's surface...
...lost planet there was no water, so the glass on its surface survived until the final breakup. Then chunks of it sailed around the solar system along with chunks of metal and rock. When they hit the earth's atmosphere, the glass shattered into small fragments as soon as it began to get hot. The fragments fell to earth as tektites. When a fragment had the right shape to keep it from tumbling as it moved through the air, the molten glass that was wiped off the forward end frequently solidified as "wings" or an "apron" attached...
...dark as the ill-omened Year of the Goat, has a silver-and sometimes a gold-lining. Just as the astronomers had predicted, the Year of the Goat was bad. Day after day it plunged Thailand into gloom with the revelation of one misfortune after another: two solar eclipses in one year, a holiday bus crash in which 22 people died, the deaths of a number of prominent Thais. Only last week, on the very eve of the goat's departure, a live bomb accidentally fell from an air force plane and killed 27 Thais...
...Force is also cooperating on construction of a 28-foot radio telescope near Fort Davis, Texas, to study solar radio noise...