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...have one's book banned in Boston used to be the peak of a writer's career. No sales gimmick, advertising campaign, or TV spot could promote a book as rapidly as a Boston...
Encouraged by optimistic astronomical forecasts that suggested the annual Leonid meteor shower might well be more dramatic than usual (TIME, Nov. 18), a team of University of Arizona students ascended nearby Kitt Peak to observe the spectacle, What they saw exceeded their wildest expectations...
...rate of fall was disappointingly low-no more than two a minute -the students stayed at their post. Then, about 5 a.m., stars fell on Arizona. "It was like a snowfall of meteors," said Dennis Milon, head of the team. "Many outshone Jupiter." During a 20-minute period of peak activity, he estimated, the meteors were falling at a rate of 140,000 per hour...
Astronomers are hoping for a spectacle reminiscent of 1833, when about 10,000 meteors per hour were visible over the eastern U.S. at the peak of the shower. That year, awed viewers, aroused from sleep by the bright flashes, described shooting stars "falling from the sky like snowflakes." Many thought that the end of the world had come...
Comet Composition. During the shower, the Air Force will launch an Aerobee rocket equipped with a "Venus Flytrap" nose cone. While the rocket is rising to a peak altitude of 117 miles, four arms will extend out of the nose cone to catch the Leonid meteoroids, entering the earth's atmosphere at a speed of 162,000 m.p.h.; then the arms fold into the nose cone, which will fall back to earth carrying specimens that will help scientists determine the composition of the comet...