Word: urania
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...family of minor planets which number over 1,000. Almost all the group follow orbits between Mars and Jupiter. Eros, however, does not travel in a conventional asteroid path, wanders sometimes between Mars and Jupiter, sometimes between Mars and Earth. Discovered in 1898 by Dr. Gustav Witt at the Urania Observatory in Berlin, the small planet was given a masculine name because of its eccentric orbit. According to astronomical custom, only asteroids which move in an ordinary orbit are given feminine names. The cycle of Eros' motion with relation to Earth is 81 years. In 1975 it will approach...
...Calif., fired a miniature moon-plane from the top of a mountain, watched it crash to the bottom of San Francisquito Canyon. In Italy a 132-lb. rocket designed by another U. S. rocketeer, Dr. Darwin O. Lyon, exploded, seriously injured four mechanics. In Vienna, the Meteorological Institute of Urania heard Professor Hermann Oberth tell how he hoped to reach Mars or Jupiter within 15 years. In Manhattan the Interplanetary Society, an organization of lunar and planetary aspirants whose members include Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard, Clark University rocketeer (TIME, July 29, 1929), and Sir George Hubert Wilkins, arctic-antarctic explorer...