Word: solarized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Astronomers generally agreed last week that two tiny objects recently discerned close to Earth are planetoids, the gleaming flecks of solar matter which revolve around the Sun mostly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. One of the objects was discovered in March by Astronomer E. Delporte of Belgium's Royal Observatory,* the other in April by Dr. Karl Reinmuth of Heidelberg. They might have been planetoids, tailless comets, or, wonderfully, new moons of the Earth...
...preparation for observation of the total solar eclipse which is scheduled to take place on August 31, the Harvard Observatory will establish a camp in southeastern Maine, between Fryeburg and the ocean, in the early days of August...
...permitting. The first night will be next Wednesday, when F. D. Miller, instructor in Astronomy, will discuss "Celestial Distances and their Measurement." On Monday evening, April 25, Miss Jenka Mohr, research assistant, will speak about "The Magellanic Clouds: Our Neighboring Galaxies." Leon Campbell, astronomer, will comment on "The Coming Solar Eclipse," on Tuesday, April 26. Dr. L. V. Robinson, research assistant will deliver the last lecture on Thursday evening, April 28 on "The Varying Light of the Stars...
...Professor V. S. Forbes of Cambridge University thinks that the moon is not dead & cold, that radioactive substances keep it warm. †This August's will be the last total solar eclipse visible from the U. S. until 1979. Observers in New England and southeastern Canada will see totality for 1.5 min. Maximum possible duration of a total solar eclipse is 7.5 min. During a total eclipse the moon's shadow slides across the earth at from 1,060 to 5,000 m. p. h., depending upon its distance from the Equator and the sun's position...
...recession of spiral nebulae, reflecting the phenomenon of the expanding universe, indicates a possible age of the extragalactic universe of a few thousand million years only. From all these facts we infer that probably the age of our universe does not differ very much from the age of the solar system, and that not very much more than 3000 million years have elapsed since the spiral nebulae, the stars, and the star-dust (the meteors) were born out of the original parent system, which we call chaos because we do not know much about...