Word: planets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...planetoid, or tiny planet, was discovered at the United States Naval Observatory. About a thousand planetoids have been already discovered. This new one is situated for the present in the constellation of Orion...
...long been felt. But if its opinions become opinionated, and the "Gadfly" contents itself in buzzing in only one ear and leaves the other alone, if it demonstrates that "opinions" of undergraduates are immature and of not much value, it would fare better on some even more lopsided planet. But that time will show; to begin with the CRIMSON wishes the "Gadfly" every success on a long, valuable flight...
...world will have reached its "saturation point" but by that time of course, we may be in communication with Mars, and if Mars has any room for our excess population we may be able to emigrate to the "new world". But if scientists fall in reach our sister planet by radio or aeroplane or by shooting rockets up into the air, what will our descendants do with themselves...
...month of June, when nature is at her best, brings this year many attractions astronomically. Four of the five conspicuous planets occupy prominent places in the evening sky. Venus in the west shortly after sunset is by far the most brilliant object. It is during the last year that the word comes from the Mount Wilson Observatory in California that definite evidence has been obtained of the absence of oxygen and water vapor bands in the spectrum of Venus, thus indicating an apparent lack on that planet of what we regard as life essentials...
...southwest about 9 P. M. and is conspicuous as a bright red star. On the tenth of June it will be in opposition with the sun, and will then be at the nearest distance to the earth that it has been for thirteen years. On that date the planet will be 42,000,000 miles from the earth. The nearest possible approach of the earth and Mars is 35,000,000 miles, and the farthest distance separating these two planets may be as great as 240,000,000 miles. This present opposition and the next following in 1924 will give...