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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Dec. 17, 1962
Satellite Gathers News About Space Particles
WASHINGTON — (UPI)—A new U.S. satellite flashed around the earth today with instructions to gather information on tiny bits of space debris that could prove dangerous to space travel.
the satellite, Explorer 16, began its second day with all equipment and experiments aboard apparently working satisfactorily.
IF ALL REMAINS well, the 220-pound satellite will spend the next year carrying out its assignment.
Explorer 16 was launched by a Scout rocket from the Wallops Island, Va., test site by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration at 8:33 am. CST yesterday.
The agency spokesman said early calculations showed the spacecraft was circling the earth once every 104 minutes, reaching a maximum distance of 733 statute miles and a minimum of 466 miles. Its indicated angle of inclination to the equator is 52 degrees.
NASA SCIENTISTS meanwhile continued receiving information from the Mariner 2 spacecraft as it headed into an orbit of the sun following its history-making rendezvous with the planet Venus.
The Cal Tech jet propulsion laboratory at Goldstone, Calif., where Mariner was built and is being tracked, calculated that on Friday the paddle-wheel spacecraft came within 22,137 miles of Venus — its closest pass at the mystery planet. This was only 1,237 miles farther than space experts' early estimate.
Metropolitan Areas In Kansas Expand
Metropolitan areas in Kansas are growing faster than the average metropolitan area in the United States, a recent report of the KU Governmental Research Center says.
Metropolitan areas in Kansas grew at a rate of 46.4 per cent during the 1950-60 period, the report says. The average metropolitan growth rate over the nation was 26.4 per cent. Metropolitan areas in Kansas were identified as Johnson, Sedgwick, Shawnee and Wvandotte counties.
But at the same time, the overall Kansas growth rate was below that of the nation. The national population increased by 18.5 per cent, while the Kansas growth rate was 14.3 per cent.
There has been a continuing increase in manufacturing income in Kansas. Manufacturing income has exceeded income from farm sources in the last five years.
Conference to Focus On Youth Problems
Juvenile delinquency and youth development will be topics on March 31 at KU at an area-wide meeting of Phi Delta Kappa, honor society for men in education.
The KU chapter has invited 15 chapters to attend the meeting.
The principal speaker will be Robert J. Havighurst, professor of education at the University of Chicago.
Prof. Havighurst was originally a scientist with a Ph.D. in physics. He switched to social science, with emphasis on the sociology of juveniles.
Oldster Has Long Record
BOURNEMOUTH, England—(UPI)—Peter Walsh. 67, was fined $56 yesterday for stealing eight pairs of socks—his 84th court appearance on theft charges.
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Experts also were going through data beamed back to earth by Mariner during the 42 minutes it scanned the cloud-shrouded planet. From this could come exciting news about Venus, including an answer to the question of whether life can exist there.
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