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...Interstellar Escape. Full escape from the gravitational pull of the sun would be tougher. Starting from the earth's surface, a ship would need 36,800 m.p.h. Soaring past Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, it would reach the outer limits of the solar system with almost no speed left. Then, like a chip on a glassy lake, it could drift for millions of years before it approached the nearest star, Proxima Centauri, which is 25 trillion miles away from the sun. Man's spaceships can probably reach interstellar escape velocity in a generation, but there will...
...most profound questions that scientists can ask is: "How did the universe begin?" Last week British Radio-Astronomer A.C.B. Lovell of the University of Manchester predicted that within a few years the new giant radio telescopes, which enable man to probe far deeper into interstellar space than the biggest optical telescope, will provide some sort of an answer. Astronomer Lovell is director of the radio telescope at Jodrell Bank, England, whose massive, 250-ft. wire-dish antenna makes it the world's biggest...
...brainchild of the University of Chicage's Dr. Marcel Schein and financed by the National Science Foundation, the balloon rig is designed to catch cosmic ray particles while they are still streaking in from distant space at interstellar speed, unhampered by dense air. Even those that are single protons can carry far more energy than the most powerful particles generated in earthbound laboratories. Striking into Dr. Schein's plates, they will leave traces of their passing in the form of lacy tracks that physicists can decipher to provide new clues to some of the most baffling mysteries...
Kohman therefore argues that tektites must come from foreign stars. During their long journeys through interstellar space, the feeble gravitational attraction between individual particles would have plenty of time to bring them all together in a tight cluster, like a bagful of marbles. As the cluster shoots into the solar system, it will, under the Kohman hypothesis, feel various gravitational pulls and will start to open, but its particles will not have time to scatter very widely before they hit the earth...
Thomas Gold, professor of Astronomy, will join Menzel in addressing the conference on "Solar Whistlers," a phenomenon resulting from lightning dicharges. Gold will also speak on "Interstellar Hydrogen." Gerald S. Hawkins, research associate at the Observatory, will also give a talk...