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Rodhamize: vb -ized; -iz.ing To begin using your maiden name again as soon as you can get away with it. ("Dan, I'm rodhamizing. I'm going to be Marilyn Tucker Quayle...
...object discovered by McCarthy and his colleagues-Frank Low of the University of Arizona and Ronald Probst of the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Tucson-has been dubbed VB 8B and is some 600 million miles from the star it orbits. It is visible only through powerful telescopes. Although it is nine-tenths the size of Jupiter, its mass is ten to 50 times greater. It is also a good deal warmer: 2,000° F, in contrast to Jupiter's -240°, or as Gatewood put it, "as hot as a Pittsburgh blast furnace...
...sighting of VB 8B was made using a technique known as speckle interferometry, which eliminates most of the distortion that the earth's atmosphere causes to the faint emissions of light from so distant a body. Instead of taking one infrared exposure, the astronomers snapped 10,000 quick shots. A computer then blended all these shots into a composite image...
...follows: A, J. Otis; B, G. C. Barclay; C, F. C. Lawrence; D, C. H. Watson; E, V. E. Macy, Jr.; F, S. S. Robinson; G, W. B. Plumer; H, H. DeC. Ward; I, A. E. Kirk; J, J. B. Read, Jr.; K, B. Hatton; L, S. VB. Goodstone; M, D. C. White; N, P. K. McElroy; O, W. B. Watkins; P. L. T. Lanman; Q, T. G. Holcombe; R, R. R. Eisendrath; S, R. C. Rowse...
Lower Mass., Ic, IVb, Vb, sections of Mr. Copeland...