| Show Silver Sate I lite Sputnik Spins On Through Space By Bob Grondel possibility of a circular orbit is very Up or down a little and it will go into an elliptical said Thomas J. head of the U of U Physics on Russia's much talked about The problem of deciding how long the Reds' hovers around the earth cannot be decided until scientists have ascertained its exact route through the according to At the reported by the the phere of the earth contains but a few molecules of air per cubic In this vacuum the could navigate around the earth for an interminable The operates under Newton's first law of body once set in motion tends to stay in motion until acted upon by another Depends on Orbit The life of the depends on its If the orbit is elliptical the ball will dip into denser air below miles and friction from the atmosphere will slow it How many stages the rocket had which sent the radio transmitting unit into the sky is as yet Parmley agrees with calculated guesses that at least three stages were The final stage of the rocket which now trails the follows it at an increasingly greater distance due to the difference in orbits and The slowing down of the and its final stage will eventually send them blazing across the Meteors and shooting stars are classed as dust particles the size of a grain of Yet for thousands of years man has watched their brilliant streaking as they entered and oxidized in the earth's Sputnik Page SPUTNIK An artists's conception of the satellite and its path around the The elliptical path will cause the ball to dip into denser air below miles and atmospheric friction will slow it Thus the life of the satellite depends on its from Page approximately miles above the What will be the consequence when the Sputnik and the final rocket stage reach the same Tremendous Meteorite Sputnik will appear as a when it slashes across the according to R. R. assistant professor of physics at the University of The brilliant light from the satellite as it oxidizes should be visible miles away in a beginning in this case at approximately 80 miles will be complete before the satellite strikes the Kadesch said there was a possibility that the entrance of the satellite into the earth's atmosphere would cause a loud No Military Implications' is no military implication in this and they have a long way before making a military he He also thinks the major effect in the United will be the unification of the military service according to the satellites will be small unmanned laboratories for study of outer space the components of cosmic the sun The num ber and nature of things which may be discovered from such study is a complete new vista for No one knows as of yet the rocket number of fuel exact or the launching site of the Russian The Russians have said that they will put aloft more complex satellites in their November United States should get their rocket in the air as soon as is said |
