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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 9, 1946)
Prof Answers Comet Gazers Answers to numerous inquirers regarding the recent meteor show er ate given here by J. Hugh Pru ett, State Astronomer and Astrono mer with the General Extension Division. 1. Were the meteors regular ‘shooting stars” or something quite different? Yes, they were of the same na ture as the so-called “shooting stars” seen occasionally on any clear night. But any of these are stars in name only. Real stars are huge suns at inconceivably great distances from us. 2. Were they exploding masses of gas? No. They entered the upper SIDE PATTER BOB WHITELY Somebody in yesterday’s Emer ald evidently got his card punched! The edition carried as much about "the boys" as news of Pearl Har bor, VE and VJ days, Eleanor Roosevelt's travels and the current report on General Stillwell’s ill ness. The statement that former editor Lyle Nelson carried a “per suader" is the wrong answer to the $84 question. Another Emer ildite had a big sag in his bag, not pore ole Lyle. Bank vaults . . . safety desposit boxes . . . secreted keys . . . the names of the mem bers which supposedly are en graved on metal tablets, are prob ibly a combination of Sanskrit and a little known Upper Ubungeese nyroglyphies, so that no one knows who is who . . . clandestine meet ings in hotel rooms with secret scratch s on the door make the Hesse < Town jewel subterfuge read like an Uncle Remus bedtime story uy c nparison. Today the fresh men are obviously confused, the •o-t us are biting the Chen-Yu off iwir nails worrying if they will , ave a date in Portland after the game, and the old characters on the campus blew their morning up all over the Side when they picked up the Emerald. Rollcall Vs probably taken ou the patter ;»f the tobacco auctioneer who goes LS-MFT . . . LS-MFT . . . Hi Ho Blbnnimneemeegumnum raum at which everyone yells "present” and then takes a bite of cough syrup. Herb Penny’s new theme song is “Cement Mix er." The genial proprietors of the Side, Jim and John, want to pass the. word along to the stay at homes this weekend that the local hangout will be closed on Sattiday. They like football too, and you can't work all the time. Miss O. Yevtich who shows lots of pom pom and boogar around the cam pus has ruined many a budding friendship when she put asterisks in front of the married men’s names in the piggers guide. Some of the campus gals had better get back in the Sadie Hawkins Day race . . . they’ve been chasing the wrong men. Remember your cof fee and . . . it's always tops at the Side. You can saucer and blow it if you want to . . . they don’t care. Spike those Stan Kenton at Jant zen rumors. He won’t be there. Pd. Adv. limits of our atmosphere (per haps 300 miles above the earth) as small, cold pieces of stone or metal at speeds relative to the earth of 14 miles per second. _ By the time they got down to the 80 ' mile level, the friction with the relatively denser air made them so hot that they began burning violently and producing a great light. Around the 50-mile height, most of them were entirely consumed and their ashes began sifting earthward. Some of the very large ones doubtless came much lower. The height while luminous can be determined fairly accurate ly by trigonometric methods. Comets Seem Stationary 3. Were they comets? No. Comets are very extensive bodies with tail sometimes millions of miles in length and at distances from us usually of millions of miles. A comet seems as station ary in the sky as does the moon and often can be seen from night to night for many months. A meteor when visible is a small body less than 100 miles above the earth. 4. Where did the meteors come from originally? The solid particles were debris from the. partial disintegration of comet Giacobini-Zinner. They are scattered out at a considerable distance behind the comet and over quite a width on all sides of its orbit. The earth, moving 18 V2 miles a second on its path around the sun, finally ran into the re gion where the particles were lo cated. Comet Miles Away 5. Where was the comet and why didn’t we see it? We came within only 132,000 .miles of the orbit where the comet had passed eight days earlier, but the meteors were so scattered out on all sides from the central path, as they moved after the comet, ! that we reached the region of space where they were. On October 9, the comet's head was over 30,000, [ 000 miles from us. The comet was never bright enough to be s.Vn without optical aid. G, Will we see these meteors every October 9? Not at all likely. Thirteen years from now is probably the first possible chance. Meteor Natural Phenomenon 7. Does a m'eteor shower fore tell trouble to the world? Astronomers consider a meteor display purely a natural phenome non, with much less effect on hu man lives than the rays of the sun. There were no brigK comets nor striking meteor displays im mediately before or during the recent war. Gehrke, Lewis Get ISA Appointments Donna Gehrke and Bob Lewis were elected by independent stu dents to the freshman representa tive positions on the ISA executive council Wednesday. ' Miss Gehrke is a member of Ori I ues, off-campus women’s organiza tion, and Lewis is from the vet's dotm. Both are freshmen in busi | ness administration. ROTC Team Warms Up For Rifle Range Firing "Dry run" preliminaries to actual range firing began this week for 37 prospective rifle team members of the ROTC. The amateur rifle men have signed up for two practice hours a week on the 50-foot rifle range upstairs in the ROTC hut. They are being coached by Col. J. E. MeCammon, Capt. R. B. Roche, F-Sgt. M. D. Mudd, and M-Sgt. B. F. Emerson, all of the military sci ence department. Scheduled prac tice periods are from 3 to 5 p.m. i daily^ j World Affairs Club Organized at UO Approximately 28 students at tended an organizational meeting of the International Relations club at the YMCA Thursday evening. The purpose of the club is to formu late better understanding and dis cussion of international affairs. Chairman pro tem Gale Deardorf conducted the meeting. Paul Dull assistant professor of political sci ence, will act as faculty adviser, Guest speakers will be presented by the club at various future meetings, As the first activity of the club representatives from the Univer sity will attend the Northwest In ternational Relations clubs confer ence at Marylhurst college in Port land on November 15 and 16. Any student wishing to attend this con ference is asked to contact Mr. Dull for informatio.*. Reports on the conference will be given at the next meeting of the club on November 21 at 7 p.m. in the YMCA. Election of officers for the year will also be held at this time. All students wishing to be come members are asked to attend this meeting. Ex-Gi Magazine Sponsors Contest ifie ex-GI magazine, Salute, is sponsoring a letter writing contest •open to all veterans going to school under the GI Bill of Rights, the let ter to be on the subject of, “Prob lems of the College Veteran.” Salute is edited and published by former editors and writers of the Stars and Stripes and Yank maga zine. It states that these letters are a chance for ex-GI's to sound off, or the current educational set-up, anc generally let off steam. Cash prizes in the amount of $75C are being offered to the writers of the ten most outstanding letters The first prize will amount to $250: second $100 and the eight addition al awards will be $50.00 apiece. Length of the letters should nol exceed 250 words and should be ad dressed to the Contest Editor, Sa lute, 19 Park Place, New York 7 N. Y. The contest will close on Jan uary 10, 1947 and letters post marked later than midnight of that date will not be accepted. Vets Forum By JOHN JENSEN and DALE HARLAN Bachelor Wanted: large room for one veteran, study desk, peaceful surroundings, preferably a veteran with a car. Residence is on River - road. If interested, contact Glenn F. Sweeny, veteran adviser, room 3, Johnson hall. Men asked to contact the *VA in the physical education immediate ly: Ed Barthlemy, Gordon L. Boice, James B. Meek, James G. Miller, Charles B. Herring, Louis Kenneth Busch, Donald A. Simpson, John H. McConald, Ralph W. Rensik, Dean Sheldon, and Richard D. Sawyer. You can, as a veteran of World War II, obtain detailed information on “how, what and where” you can buy surplus government property, from an illustrated booklet just is sued by the War Assets administra tion. The booklet explains to veter ans how they can use their priority in purchasing for personal use many items now in short supply. SDX to Sponsor Radio Roundtable Tuesday evening’s American Vet erans Committee roundtable dis cussion over station KllGN will be sponsored by Sigma Delta Chi, na tional journalism professional pro fessional fraternity. Topic of discussion on the half hour broadcast is “Responsibility of the Press in Slanting News.” Par ticipating will be Dean George S. Turnbull of the school of journal ism ; Dr. Howard R. Taylor, head of the psychology department and newly appointed dean of the gradu ate school; Jack Billings, managing editor of the Emerald, and Ted Goodwin. Moderator is Steve Worth, Oregon law student. The KUGN roundtable discussion program begins at 8:li p.m. Dean to Attend Meeting Dean George S. Turnbull of the school of journalism will attend the Saturday meeting of directors of the Oregon Newspaper Publishers association in Portland, returning to the campus Saturday evening. Carl C. Webb, professor of jour nalism and manager of the news paper association is also atteending the meeting, having left the cam pus yesterday to atteend both Fri day and Saturday sessions. I-DANCING I FRIDAY & SATURDAY NIGHTS I DANCING STARTS AT 9 P.M. MUSIC BY ART HOLMAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA WILLAMETTE PABK • For Table Reservation*—Springfield 326 • U of O and UCLA Football Dance FORMERLY THE UPTOWN LET’S GO Dancing After The Game Gary Nottingham And His Orchestra NhlO*L0 I F4^% Mi BEACH BMimm ¥IMk\ALII D^7/o/rtGX W fST COAST THfATRIS. "Breakfast in Hollywood" with Tom Breneman and Bonita Granville also "Faithful in My Fashion" The Renegades with Evelyn Keys Plus 'Whistle Stop' George Raft DANGER WOMAN BRENDA JOYCE MY PAL TRIGGER with ROY ROGERS ★McKENZIE IN SPRINGFIELD Make Mine Music Walt Disney’s —Plus— COURAGE OF LASSIE ftTATE theathe . “GAME OF DEATH” and “OVERLAND RIDERS”