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Monday, February 1, 1954
THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem, Oregon
Very Keen Eyesight Needed
To Glimpse Planet Uranus
' , By J. HUGH PUUETT
Astronomer, Extension Division, Oregon Higher Education System
, Answers to questions recently re- diguing a hole entirely through the
ceived from several readers wiu
likely be of interest to others.
1. "Can the distant planet Uran
us be seen with the naked eye?"
When nearest the earth, Uranus'
brightness is rated as S.74 magni
ture. Magnitude S is generally
given as the dimmest visible with
out optical aid. (The higher the
number, the dimmer the light.) So
on a clear, moonless night, far
away from artificial illumination,
an observer with excellent eyesight
can barely glimpse this remote
planet.
2. "Is Venus now near inferior
' conjunction or superior conjunc
tion?" Venus moves on an orbit that is
nearer the sun than is the earth's
orbit. It is lost in the sun's rays
for some time when passing al
most between us and the sun (in
ferior conjunction), and when on
the far side of the sun from us
(superior conjunction.) Venus was
at superior conjunction last Fri
day, so will be too near the sun
for evening observation for some
time.
3. "You recently wrote about
Religious Art
Exhibit Dated
MT. ANGEL A religious
art exhibit at Mt. Ansel Semi
nary will be open to the public
from Saturday until Monday,
Feb. 6, 7, and 8. The exhibition
will be open to the public from
noon until six o'clock each of
the three days. A scries of il
lustrated lectures will start at
two o'clock each day throughout
the exhibition. The exhibition
Will consist of many fine ex
amples of traditional and un
usual chalices, chasubles, and
cructlixes.
On exhibition will be more
than 40 chalices from various
countries, including 10 excep
tional sacred vessels owned by
priests in Portland. There also
will be a collection of photo
graphs of chalices and mon
strances by Burch-Korrodi of
Zurich and Braun of Utrecht
Twenty vestments of exquisite
design from France, Germany,
England and America will ap
pear at the exhibition which
likewise will show silk and gold
yardage material woven by the
Gotcn Guild of Koyoto, Japan.
Modern and Realistic cruci
fixes, including some attractive
modern numbers will be one o
the high-lights of this art show.
The 30 crucifixes are fashioned
in many different materials.
The lectures will consist of an
explanation of the crucifix by
the Very Rev. Prior Martin Pol
lard, OSB, Rev. Francis Kcnnard
of Portland will outline the sig
nificance and history of the
chalice, and William Justcma,
Abbey resident artist and New
York designer, will discuss the
latest designs and trends in vest
ments. Sunday afternoon, Feb. 8, at 2
o'clock, the Rt. Rev. Damian
Jcntgcs, OSB, Abott of Mt. An
angel Abbey, will bless the new
statue of St. Joseph, just com
pleted by Frances Rich, for the
new Abbey crypt church. Fran
ces Rich is widely recognized in
this country and also in Italy as
one of our truly gifted sculptors.
A daughter of actress Irene
Rich, her Interest in sculpture
began as a school girl in Santa
Barbara, Calif. Later she stu
died under Malvina Hoffman in
Paris, Alexandre Jacolcff in
Boston and Carl Millcs at Cran
brook Academy in Michigan,
earth, getting all the air out of it
and dropping a man into the hole,
I low could you get all the air out
ot Iff
I don't know. I do know the
experiment would not work if the
air were left in the hole for
would be extremely dense at the
earth s center.
The same correspondent asks if
the man would not stop when he
reached the earth's center even if
I had pumped all the air out of
the BOOO-mile hole. No, he would
ascillate back and forth from one
side of the earth to the other. A
freely-swinging pendulum does not
slop when it reaches the lowest
part of its swing. And an auto
allowed to coast down a hill into
a valley will not stop in the valley
but will run a considerable dis
tance up a hill on the other side.
11 there were no friction of air.
bearings or track, the momentum
gained in the downhill run would
carry it up just as far on the other
side.
4. "What makes the sun and
moon shine and why doesn't the
sun go through phases (new sun.
first quarter, full sun. etc.) like the
moon?
The sun shines because its sur
face is so extremely hot, 50 times
hotter than the boiling point of
water. The moon, earth and plan
ets arc relatively cold bodies and
shine just because the sun's light
illuminates them.
Half of the earth, the moon, or
any planet (the side turned toward
the sun) is illustrated. Phases of
the moon are due to the fact that
wc do not see all the lighted half
excepting at full moon. The earth
would show similar phases to a
moon inhabitant. Any half of the
sun in view is glowing. So we al
ways have "full sun."
Byron Price
Quits U.N. Post
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. UH -
Byron Price, top American in the
U. N. secretariat, retired Monday.
The former executive news edi
tor of The Associated Press left
his $22,O0O-a-ycar post as assistant
secretary general after almost
seven years of service.
His two main achievements, as
head of the Department of Ad
ministrative and Financial Serv
ices, were: (I) supervision of the
multi-million-dollar building proj
ect, which produced the glittering
skyscraper headquarters of the
world organization, and (2) help
ing in the drive to rid the sec
retariat of suspected American i
Communists.
His only plans for the future,
he says, are to grow tomatoes,
cut grass and go fishing.
Price left the AP to be U. S.
director of censorship during
World War II.
Two Dams May
Replace Mt. Sheep
BOISE, Idaho Ifi Because of
newly discovered foundation
faults, two dams may be substi
tuted for a single dam the Bureau
of Reclamation proposed for
Mountain Sheep on the Snake
River
Harold T. Nelson, regional Bu
reau of Reclamation, said Satur
day theb urcau is considering
changing its plans believing faults
would increase the ocst of a single
high dam higher than expected.
Original plans called for a 6fiS
foot dam at Mountain Sheep. Nel
son said the bureau now is consid
ering a 160-foot dam at Mountain
Sheep and a 4;i0fool dam at
Pleasant Valley upstream.
Groups opposing a federal dam
at Hells Canyon have favored the
Mountain Sheep site.
Nelson said drilling showed the
cost of the Mountain Sheep dam.
because of. the faults, would be
more than 300 million dollars. The
previous estimate was 27R million.
Ionian islands
Have Tremors
ATHENS, Greece Wl The
Ionian islands of Kefallinia, Za
kinthos and Ithaca where 1,000
persons were killed in devastating
quakes last August have been
rocked by new tremors. No more
lives have been reported lost.
however.
Thirty quakes on Saturday de
molished some buildings and set
i off landslides which blocked roads.
Loud rumblings before the quakes
struck terror into the population.
Torrential rain added to the hard
ship of those in stricken areas.
The earthquake last August de
molished 95 per cent of the three
islands' huildings, leaving about
130,000 persons homeless.
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