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Show PROF. PREDICTS ROCKET BARRIER SALT LAKE CITY A barrier to rocket and interplanetary inter-planetary ships was announced an-nounced this week by a University of Utah astronomer. astrono-mer. Dr. Richard N. Thomas, associate professor of mathematics, told members of the American Astronomical Astronomi-cal Society that this barrier to super-stratospheric travel trav-el was the heating effect of the upper air about 60 miles beyond the earth. The heating effect is about twice as much as had been calculated by previous scientific experiment. Dr. Thomas was assisted in his research by Dr Fred Whipple of Harvard observatory. |