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Pf IBxs EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD, Thurs.. Mar. 21, 1983 !'W( DAG1WOOO-1 I f f IS NO NOUR FINAL 1 BV YES, CXD YOU MEAN "' l t3$ f . may I 6uy- .- answer ? . y vea.i canTsuv iroptj &12 - " . --I, (THe LOVELY) i NCLfCAN BUY IT P J- ' J-Jf S " N. Ask Andy To Your Health n u it w el tn u m w. Pi t it fa k( G 1 in w M tb itd ed P' hi m a CO Cll it It it in i cc at B W. at to m b at Ei M In w, ia in tn Pi th c i & e it O e a tl. al fa in lii w h tn ri a u tc In ei I P' SI P' v m p: P I H C 01 tl el ft Z P d P c: u 1 Bolide anExplodirig Meteor Andy sends a complete, 20-volume set of tht World Book Encyclopedia to Jennie Joy Lovelace, 14, of Sioux City, la., for her ques tion: . What ire bolides? Bolidea ire related to fireballs, to so-called hooting stars and falling stars. Meteors are ipsce-traveling lumps of minerals voyaging for countless ages through the solar system. Their space-ways are enormous. But every hour thousands of speck-sized meteors collide with the earth. Traveling through empty space at speeds ef 25 miles a second, a meteor suddenly crashes into the resisting air of the earth. It must jam on its brakes and slow down, and its speed energy is turned instantly into heat energy. The space traveler catches fire, and the speck-sized meteors burn to ashes before they crash the ground. A meteor 10 pounds or more, however, is likely to survive the fall. Its space traveling days are done, and the lump of grounded mineral is now called a meteorite. A large falling meteor is bright enough to turn night into day. We can call it a fireball or a bolide, though we usually use the term bolide for meteors that explode in the air. For a few seconds, we see a blazing ball of red or yellow, white or bluish green arch ing down to earth. Behind it trails a streak of fiery vapor often fringed with pinwheeling sparks. When a bolide explodes high in the air, the dazzling fragments scatter in all direc tions. Air current high in the stratosphere soon twists the fiery train out of shape, the glowing specks and the whole spectacle dis appear in a few minutes. Out in space, the bolide is a cold lump of dead minerals. It begins to slow down when It meets resistance from the upper atmosphere and catches fire perhaps 100 miles above the ground. The sudden heat is terrific, and the fall is so fast that only the surface of the meteor catches fire. The inside remains stone cold, even after a meteor or its fragments strike the ground. The sudden surface heat may crack the lump of minerals, and it be comes an exploding bolide. A meteor may travel the space-ways of the solar system at 25 miles a second, while the earth rotates at 18',-i miles a second. If it strikes from one direction, its speed is added to that of the rotating earth. A fireball may . start its collision at 45 miles a second. But the resisting air slows down this fantastic speed as the meteor falls. It hits the ground with no more force than any other falling body. , Andy sends a Hammond's Nature Atlas of America to Stephen Roberts, 12, of Exeter, Calif., for his question: Can a penguin swim? The penguin is a flightless bird whose wings are too weak to lift his bulky body Into the air. He is not much good on the ground where he must waddle along on short legs and wide, flat feet. But in the water, the dinner jacket bird is a champ. . The slender wings of the penguin are . adapted as flippers. He uses them to swim under water where he seeks fishy food and frolics with his friends and relatives. Andy awardi each day a full set of the World Book Encyclopedia for the first question he aelects to answer, when a second question la answered a Urge world globe or atlaa Is awarded. Questions are accepted from teen-age or less-than-teen-age readers. They should be addressed to the Register-Guard, 97S High St., Eugene. Andy prefers that questions be written on postcards, rather than In letter form. National Parks Spruce Up For Record Season in '63 WASHINGTON Spring clean ing begins in winter for the Na tional Park Service it needs the head start to spruce up the public's 26-million-acre estate. 'During the winter slack, rang ers and maintenance men clear roads, cut and mark trails, sup plement museum exhibits and scrub down visitor centers. Some - 90 million people a record number are expected to visit the national parks in 1963, Last year more than 88 millions camo to camp, hike, ride,' swim, fish, study or just sightsee from car windows. park visitors will find their National Park System bigger and better than ever, says the National Geographic Society. In the past two years, 13 parks, historic sites, memorials and monuments totaling 232,544 acres Have been established.. Thrce new seashore parks are In' the Park System, which prev. lously had only Cape Hattoras. Padre Island, a long sand reef on the southern Texas coast,. Is the greatest expanse of undevel oped seashore in the United States' portion of the Gulf of Mexico. Point Reyes, Calif., fea tures wind-swept caves, offshore bird rookeries, and herds of sea lions.- Cape Cod National Sea shore preserves 27,000 acres of cliffs and beaches, moors, streams and pine-fringed ponds. The National Park System now includes 191 acres stretch ing from the snow-white beach es of Virgin Islands ' National Park (n the Caribbean to the flame-throwing volcanoes of Hawaii. The system soars as high as Alaska's snow-mantled Mt. McKinley, drops as low as Oregon's 1,998-foot-docp Crater Lake. Special events are featured in Wonder whether the in crease In average use of electrical energy by residen tial customers durinu 1981 was due to the use of more electric can openers? Last year 187 kilowatt-hours more were used, bringing the average residential con sumption to 4,012 Kilowatt hours per year. O Hncyolopedla, Britannic many parks. Hopl Indians, for example, stage evening dances on the south rim of Grand Canyon. At Philadelphia's Inde pendence Hall,., "sound and light" pageants nightly drama tize the story of American inde pendence. A park historian in Washington, D. C, helps young sters dip bayberry candles at Old Stone House, a. Georgetown same refreshments that George Washington's mother gave her guests spiced older and gingerbread are served on Washington's birthday at his birthplace at Popes Creek Farm, Va. A new underground display trench at Russell Cave, Ala bama, will enable visitors to see how Stone Age Americans lived 9,000 years ago. Russell Cave, man s oldest known habi tation in tho Southeast, was given to the Park System by the National Geographic Society in 1958. Tourist at Wctherill Mesa, one of many canyon-scarred hills in Colorado's Mesa Verde National Park, may examine the cliff dwellings and cere monial kivas of Pueblo Indians who reached a high degree of culture before mysteriously van ishing 700 years ago. The Na tional Park Service and the Na tional Geographic Society have excavated three cliff cities and uncovered skeletons, pottery and grain. B12 Controls Pernicious Anemia By DR. JOSEPH G. MOLNER Dear Doctor Molner: I am a 27-year-old mother and I have pernicious anemia. The doctor says there is no cure, only treatment which consists of Vitamin B12 every two or three weeks. I feel a lot better but I lose energy easily. Is there any way I can fight this problem without having "shots" the rest of my life? Mrs. K.V. Injection of Vitamin B12 ev ery two or three weeks is the standard treatment for perni cious anemia. You might feel much better about things if you knew the history of the disease and its treatment. Within my lifetime (and very little more than yours) this dis ease has changed from one which was usually quickly .fatal to one which can be kept under control with great sureness. Then came the discovery that large quantities of liver would control pernicious anemia. This was a godsend. Patients, otherwise marked for death, were delighted to eat a pound of liver a day and live. It was assumed that there must be something in liver which accomplished this, but years were required to find out. After liver came liver extracts, and from them finally Vitamin B12 which, it turns out, is the secret of controlling pernicious anemia. Having one injection every two or three weeks is far sim pler, you must agree, than forc ing yourself to eat a pound of liver every day. So instead of rebelling against the shots, reflect on how much luckier you are than patients who had the same disease only a lew decades ago. There is no way to "fight" pernicious anemia except with tnese suostantial doses of BIZ. Dear Doctor Molner: Is it common for a young man of 23 to have to Urinate every 30 or 40 minutes? I have been that way for four months, ever since I accepted a small beer in a sleazy bar. Does holding in the urine strengthen the bladder? W.F.N. This problem is decidedly not common at your age, and I sus pect either a urinary tract in fection or diabetes (either dia betes mcllltus, meaning excess sugar, or diabetes insipidus, considerably different ailment which does not involve sugar). I doubt that the small beer, i drunk in any kind of a bar, had anything to do with it. That's probably coincidence. I suggest that you have a urinalysis, plus whatever further tests may then be indicated, to find out what is wrong. Sometimes a bladder, if un dersized, may be stretched by deliberately trying to hold In the urine as long as possible, but that applies only to healthy individuals. 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