Page 4 Summer Session Kansan Tuesday, July 24, 1962
Earth Has Three Moons, Not One
Editor's Note—Dave Beckett, Springfield. Mo. is attending the Midwestern Music and Arts year at Hillcrest High School. When he was 11 years old he reported all astronomical news for the Galena (IL.) Gazette, the second oldest paper in
By Dave Beckett
For years the possibility of the earth having more than one moon has fascinated the science fiction enthusiast, but it was not until 1950 that the idea was taken seriously.
At that time Dr. K. Kordylewaki, working at Krakow Observatory, Krakow, Poland, was persuaded by a friend to begin a search for any additional satellites of the earth.
THE FIRST PROBLEM Kordylewski encountered in this difficult task was to determine the possible orbit for such a satellite. After delving into celestial mechanics, he came to the conclusion that such a satellite would revolve around the earth in the same orbit as the moon.
This fact ultimately led to another problem. Where in the moon's orbit would the hypothetical satellite be? Oddly enough the answer to this question had been found some 200 years earlier by a French mathematician named Lagrange.
Through extremely tedious and difficult calculations, Lagrange was able to prove that the only points on the moon's orbit where a satellite could evolve around the earth and stay in a stable motion were 60 degrees ahead of the moon and 60 degrees behind the moon.
THIS, OF COURSE, left only two possible locations for the satellite, and armed with this knowledge, Kordylewski began looking for the elusive moons.
High in the Czechoslovakian mountains, working in the clear, clean, mountain air, Kordylewski set up his equipment and began making regular observations of the skiv.
Results did not come quickly. It was not until 1958 that Kordyleski got his first glimpse of a faint couldlike object 60 degrees behind the moon. A few months later, he noticed another hazy object 60 degrees in front of the moon.
CONTINUED OBSERVATIONS showed that these two objects moved right along with the moon, proving that they were genuine satellites of the earth.
Even this information was not enough for Kordylewski. Before he informed other scientists of his discovery, he had to take a picture o the satellites, and it took him three
years to get their imprint on a photographic plate.
Finally in 1961 Kordylewski announced to the world that two new satellites had been discovered, thus terminating a project which had occupied him 11 years and which gave mankind a better understanding of the universe.
THE REASON that the satellites look like clouds are that they are not solid bodies, but tiny particles amassed together in space like a giant dust cloud.
According to one of the latest theories the satellites were formed by the aggregation of micro-meteorites (tiny particles about the size of a speck of dust) in space.
The satellites cannot be seen by the naked-eye. They are so minute that it took Kordylewski three years to photograph them. They can't be seen, but they are there.
Is Twist Out? Some Say Yes
NEW YORK—(UPI)—It's only a matter of time until the "Twist" goes the way of the "Black Bottom" and the "Big Apple," according to some experts on the subject—teen-agers.
THE SURVEY, conducted by the Savings Banks Association of New York State, shows that more than three-fourths of the teen leaders feel that even though the dance is popular now, it eventually will be displaced by another "craze."
That's one finding of a recent survey of the general attitudes, preferences, and savings habits of more than 1,500 class presidents in New York State high schools.
The survey, part of a program to encourage thrift among young people, brought these comments on the Twist:
"I think it is just here temporarily. It is a strenuous dance which tires dancers comparatively easily."
"IT WON'T LAST. I'm sick of it already."
"I think the Twist will be remembered as the Charleston is today."
"It's a bad . . . a good dance when danced for the casualness of the dance itself. At more than a casual pace, it's ridiculous."
"Give it six months more. It's different and fun and healthy—but we'll all get tired of it."
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A program ranging from serious speeches on personnel problems and communications to a beef and buffalo barbecue will be featured at the 16th annual College and University Personnel Association Conference Aug. 5-8 at KU.
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PANEL DISCUSSIONS will center on orientation programs, functions of employee committees, communication and data processing operations. All business meetings will be held in the Kansas Union.
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Congressman Robert Ellsworth, R-Kan., will address the 150 personnel directors on "Government in Higher Education" at the banquet at 7:15 p.m., Aug. 6, in the Hotel Eldridge.
Communications, Barbecue On Agenda for Conference
PURPOSE OF THE meeting is to exchange ideas and information in the management of non-academic personnel affairs of colleges and universities. There are 550 member institutions in CUPA.
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In addition to meetings and speeches, delegates will attend a square dance and "beef" n buffalo barbecue" at Lone Star Lake.
professor of speech; and Dana Stevens, director of the business placement bureau.
Main speakers for the conference will be Arthur Mandelbaum of the Menninger Foundation, Topeka; J. W. Barksdale, of International Business Machines, Kansas City, Mo., and Harold Herman, editor of College and University Business, Chicago, Ill.
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KU faculty members who will speak are George B. Smith, vice-chancellor and dean of the University; Frank E. X. Dance, assistant
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