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Scientists Report Moon Dust May Not Exist
CHICAGO — (UPI) — Spacemen reaching the moon may not be engulfed in the desert of dust that had been expected. Armour Research Foundation (ARF) scientists have reported.
After initial experiments for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Armour scientists said yesterday dust particles become harder and more firmly knit under conditions of higher vacuum such as exist on the moon.
They said they have not been able to prove, however, that particles eventually become bonded together in a rock-like substance as the vacuum increases even more.
JACKSON, Miss. — (UPI) — Circuit Judge Leon Hendrick, in a move indicating possible action against Negro James H. Meredith, yesterday instructed a grand jury to indict any person giving false information during voter registration.
The experiments are being conducted at Illinois Institute of Technology and will last up to five years. NASA allocated $51,600 for the first year.
Meredith May Be Indicted On Vote Fraud
BUT THE COURT'S ACTION came several days before he enrolled at the University of Mississippi and several federal injunctions were issued against any interference with Meredith's enrollment and attendance at the university.
Meredith was convicted in Justice of the Peace Court of falsely claiming to be a Hinds County resident when he registered as a voter here in 1960.
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Dist. Atty. Bill Waller said after the court session he was "going to follow the judge's charge," but he would not say if that meant indicting Meredith.
"I DON'T THINK HE (Meredith) can be arrested," said Waller, because of the injunctions. He pointed out that indictments are not made public until the parties involved are arrested.
Hendrick told the jurors "it is important for us to have charge and determine who should vote in our elections."
If Meredith is tried in Circuit Court, he would be tried for a felony and not a misdemeanor as he was in Magistrate's Court.
Hendrick did not specifically mention the case against Meredith but he soundly criticized the federal government for its actions in his forced enrollment.
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Using a pump to remove air a molecule at a time from their vacuum chamber, ARF men achieved the equivalent of minus 8 atmospheres. The lunar vacuum is believed equivalent to minus 40 atmospheres.
At that point, the scientists had to halt the experiment because the ion pump was pulling dissolved gas molecules from the stainless steel sides of the vacuum chamber, thereby unequalizing their vacuum.
In creating a material similar to the moon's surface, scientists ground up silicon dioxide into particles smaller than grains of talcum powder. The ARF team also experimented with olivene, a rock mineral which researchers at California Institute of Technology's jet propulsion laboratory believe present on the moon.
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TURKU, Finland — (UPI) — Mrs. Anni Augusta Juhola, a 65-year-old widow, was held today for trial on charges that she killed an elderly woman neighbor of 30 years standing for the attentions of a 65-year-old widower.
Widow Held for Murder
After Murder of Opponent
Police alleged that Mrs. Juhola killed Anni Amanda Elo, 58, with a piece of wood Oct.27 after a quarrel over the unidentified widower's affections.
Tuesday, Nov. 6, 1962
MOSCOW — (UPI) The Soviet interplanetary rocket Mars-1 is hurting toward the planet Mars on a path that will bring its initial trajectory to the planet closer than planned, news agency TASS said today.
Tass said scientists plan to make in-flight corrections that eventually will bring the 1,970-pound space probe within 621 to 6,831 miles of the surface of Mars.
Soviet Rocket Mars-1 Will Be Near Miss
TASS said information received today showed that its path will bring it within 156,000 miles of the planet on its initial trajectory.
THE ROCKET was launched from a piggy-back satellite in orbit above the earth last Thursday on a 48 million mile journey that is expected to take seven months.
Its task is to photograph Mars and transmit the pictures back to earth.
It said the original program for the flight "envisaged its placing on the initial trajectory passing near Mars at a distance of up to 300,000 miles."
"THE DESIGN of the interplanetary station envisages correction of its movement in flight on radio signals from the earth with the help of a precise system of astro-orientation, and special engines for insuring the flight of the automatic station over the surface of Mars at altitudes ranging from 1,000 to 11,000 kilometers, (621 to 6,831 miles)," Tass said.
Tass said communications with the station were "fine" and it was responsive to radio commands.
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TASS said at 3 a.m. CST today tn 1,970-pound rocket had reached a distance of 998,400 miles from earth.
It said by 3 a.m. CST Friday it will be a "distance of 1,614,000 miles from the earth."
The agency added:
"As shown by the telemeasurements, the conditions of the functioning of all apparatuses on the station remain within the pre-set limits. Radio apparatuses function normally."
The Mars-1 was speeding toward Mars at the same time the United
States Mariner-2 space probe was heading toward Venus.
VENUS is the closest planet to the earth toward the sun and Mars is the closest planet to the earth away from the sun.
The Mariner-2 is expected to pass within 21,000 miles of Venus sometime in the middle of December.
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