Word: sputniked
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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...since October 4, when Russia made her spectacular launching of Sputnik, he and his staff at the Smithsonian have had to concentrate their attention on the activities of Russia's two satellies and hope that the United States will eventually be able to add its offspring to the growing celestial brood...
...Sputnik II has not yet split into two parts, according to Dr. J. Allen Hynek, Associate Director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Institute...
...Sputnik II will pass over Boston at 12:56 Saturday afternoon. Hynek said, however, that football spectators should not attempt to spot the rocket with the naked eye, but that the Institute will try with a five-inch telescope...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6--Sputnik II was sighted all across the country today, giving scientists the information needed for an accurate fix of its orbit around the earth...
Whipple reported 11 new sightings of Sputnik II yesterday morning and announced that an improved orbit had been calculated for the rocket, giving its apogee at 1013 miles and its perigee at 140. He added that there was no indication to date that it was speeding up or moving into a smaller orbit...