Word: meteoric
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...could designers anticipate all the other hazards that computers might encounter in distant space-a burst of gamma radiation, the impact of a tiny meteor, an unexpected power loss. Even mission control would be powerless in such a crisis. If trouble occurred near Neptune, for example, radioed data describing the problem would take four hours to reach the earth. By that time, the moment for a crucial maneuver might well have passed, and the entire mission could be jeopardized...
Footprint Caper. During their second moon walk, Lovell and Haise will try to climb 250 ft. or more to the lip of Cone Crater, where they may find very ancient debris from the huge meteor impact that created the Sea of Rains some 300 miles away. Their most unusual exercise will probably be Haise's "footprint caper," during which he will plant his boot in a pile of soil and photograph the imprint. Purpose: to study the clinging power of moon dust...
...original Lost City meteorite probably weighed several hundred pounds, and it created a bright "fireball" trail that was seen by thousands of prairie dwellers before it exploded. A farmer named Phillip Halpain discovered a 9-ounce fragment of the meteor while he was searching for a lost calf. Earlier, a member of the Smithsonian's search party discovered a 21 pound chunk lying on a dirt road...
Using data from the Prairie View cameras, Richard McCrosky, a lecturer in Astronomy and the scientist in charge of the meteor project, predicted that the meteorite would land in a one-mile-square area near Lost City...