Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Another fraction of the cosmic cloud stopped farther away from the sun, forming Mars and the moon. Since these two zones of planet formation overlapped, the earth was able to capture the moon as its satellite. The big outer planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, were formed from a third fraction of the cosmic cloud, whose chemical composition allowed it to be ionized and stopped at a very great distance from...
...Third Planet. Alfven believes that his theory gives nearly every star a retinue of planets. "In fact," he says, "if we consider a star with the same mass as the sun, we should expect that the third planet from it moves at about the same distance as the earth from the sun, and has a constitution which is similar...
...reasonable extension of Alfven's theory: the third planet away from stars like the sun has the conditions most likely to sustain life...
...Like the good country cousins they are, the Kansas City Athletics traded slugging Outfielder Bob Cerv to the New York Yankees for bench-riding Third Baseman Andy Carey to complete the 16th in a series of deals between the two clubs in the past five years, involving 61 players. Sent to the Athletics by the Yankees in 1956, Cerv celebrated his return by going three-for-five in his opening game, hitting a homer in his second, but still could not prevent two Yankee losses to the Chicago White...
Pulling Out the Stops. In St. Louis, after his organist had begun a third run-through of a two-verse hymn, Pastor Marion F. Stuart of the Tyler Place Presbyterian Church hastily gave a call to prayer: "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they...