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...long, $100 million marvel of electronics under construction by the Hughes Aircraft Co., will handle as many as 37,000 telephone calls and four television channels simultaneously. The bird's power comes entirely from the sun, whose rays will be captured by 19,000 solar cells encircling the cylindrical satellite and converted directly into electricity...
...television. The rock landed under the dining room table and no one was injured. In April 1971, a 12½-oz. meteorite ripped into a Wethersfield home about a mile from where the Donahues live. Scientists welcome such hits because meteorites provide valuable information about the solar system, and Wethersfield II is being shipped to a Washington State laboratory for study. The odds left the experts awestruck. Said one geologist: "To have two strike the same town is almost incomprehensible...
...altruistic Foundation and two less noble competitors for the heart and mind of the cosmos. As the breathless plot caroms on, Asimov winks at his audience. Interplanetary rocketeers not only take advantage of hyperspace (folds in the fabric of the universe) to bridge the light-years between one solar system and another; they also use English and credit cards. Rare is the author who can resume a story after a pause of three decades, but Asimov has never been predictable in anything but fecundity. This is his 260th book and one of his best. Given the master's past...
Before Edmund Halley (pronounced Hal-ee) identified them in 1705 as periodic visitors to the inner solar system, comets were widely viewed as omens of disaster. Astronomers now look upon them as primordial chunks of matter that offer clues to the solar system's formation. The budget-conscious U.S. has bowed out of the race to intercept Halley's comet with a robot spacecraft, thus leaving the field to the Soviets, Western Europeans and Japanese. But NASA plans a relatively cheap ($2 million) alternative: diverting an unmanned ship already in orbit for an inspection of a comet called...