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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Montana: Gibson Dam on the Sun River requires new piers and reinforcement. Willow Creek Dam needs major repairs...
...posters, coloring books, even games. Is the child a budding conjuror? Self-Working Card Tricks are only a postage stamp (plus $1.50) away, as well as membership in the Young Magicians Club. Kids into cartoons and photography can study film animation, make paper movie machines and paint with the sun. From Kite Flying to the less earthbound joys of Star Trekking and Rocketry, the Whole Kids Catalog consistently amuses and informs. It could use one visual aid: the book has no index. Still, its 250 pages are so entrancing that the searcher for any particular item will find that getting...
Something new under the sun...
...discovered one comet and five more that had somehow been "lost" as well as the 13th-and what may prove to be the 14th-moon of Jupiter, and 80 supernovas, or exploding stars. Last week Kowal announced an even more remarkable sighting: a small, faint object orbiting the sun between Saturn and Uranus. It could be the solar system's tenth planet...
Kowal's observations indicate the object is between 160 and 640 kilometers (100 and 400 miles) in diameter-larger than most of the asteroids that orbit between Mars and Jupiter, but far tinier than the smallest of the nine planets, Mercury. It orbits the sun in the same plane as the planets and is currently about 1.5 billion miles from earth. Depending upon whether its orbital path is nearly circular or highly elliptical, the object could take anywhere from 60 to several hundred years to complete a single circuit...