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4 Star, Planet, Meteor By J. HUGH PRUETT Astronomer? Extension Division Oregon Hither Education System 3 "Are the stars in" the Great Dipper just stars or planets? Please distinguish between planets and stars. All planets are stars, are they not, but not all plums are prunes. Why, through "the ages, has not one of the seven stars in the Great Dipper fallen or burned out? We see stars falling and wonder if one in the Dipper will ever fall." (H.H.S. Portland) s Aside from Jhe sun, moon, and an occasional comet, the c other celestial objects look alike to the naked eye excepting for brightness. So we are accus tomed to call them "stars. The flecks of light that- at times dash across the sky and dis appear in a second or so look just like stars so are commonly called "falling stars." Three Distinct Classes These objects which are called stars really belong in three dis tinct classes. Some are relatively close to us; others at great dis tances; still others are incon ceivably remote. The nearest are the so-called "falling stars." They are not stars at all. They are meteors. They are debris which comes from spaces outside the region of the earth and become lumi nous only as they dash through our upper atmosphere some times at over 40 miles per sec ond and bee om e heated by friction with our air. They are small particles of matter and while visible are descending from about 80 miles above the earth's surface to 40 or 50 miles where they are entirely burned. Big ones sometimes reach the surface before being consumed. Other Worlds Planets are other worlds of our own solar system. Only five are visible without optical aid. They encircle the sun as does our earth. Some are nearer the run than we are but most of them are farther away. They are not luminous due to being in tensely hot, but only because the central sun shines on them and lights them. They are stars only in appearance. The most distant known is Pluto, nearly four billion miles' from the sun. The real stars are extremely distant suns, the nearest being about 7,000 times farther from our sun than is Pluto. They shine because they are extreme ly hot. Our sun is the closest star to us. Very delicate instru ments are needed to detect mo tions of the distant stars among themselves, even , as seen in a human lifetime. They never shoot across the sky as do the nearby, meteors. Terrific veloc ity would be needed for us to detect it readily. "Shooting stars" are not real stars on a rampage. They are only phenomena of a relatively nearby upper atmosphere. Don't worry that some night a star or two will tumble out of the Great Dipper. All of them are real stars, not planets nor meteors. Construction in Washington of the National Shrine of the Im maculate Conception, which will be the second largest church in the United States, will require 250,000 cubic feet of stone, 170, 000 bags of cement and 25,000, 000 bricks. Sunday, February 13. 1953 MTOTOwn fOBEtsain matt. -mr-ajTrrv vrw Motorcycle Mishap Injures Navy Man Jackie W. Allen, 21, of 801 North Central ave., was report ed in "satisfactory" condition yesterday afternoon, following a motorcycle accident on Consol idated Freightways property, ac cording to hospital attendants and city police. Allen, who is in the U.S. Navy and returned home on leave Fri day, was apparently practicing riding a motorcycle when he struck a low concrete retaining wall in the truck yard, police said. . Officers said they believed Al len suffered a fractured should er and possible head injury, al though complete information, wasn't available until x-rays could be analyzed. The youth was taken to Com munity hospital by Medf ord Am bulance service. Almost 90 per cent of the pre scriptions written by doctors to day could not have been filled as recently as '20 years ago be cause the drugs they called for did not exist then. 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