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PORTRAITS ON SHOW-These colored chalk be on show at a new "Royal Children" exhibi
portraiu of Prince Charles and Princess Anne, tion opening in Buckingham Palace in Lon
done in 1957 by Alfred Kingsley Lawrence, will don. (UPI)
Tail-Waving Comet
Raises Questions
On Solar Activity
NEW YORK (UPI)-A comet
with a wagging tail has scie
tists guessing about one of the
most significant but little known
features of the solar system
the solar wind, it was reported
today.
The comet is called Buraham
I960 II which was first sighted
in 1959. But it was not until
this year that Daniel Malaise,
formerly of the Astrophysical
Institute of the University of
Liege, Belgium, observed that
the comet "wagged" its tail.
Malaise reported today in the
Astronomical Journal that the
tail, which is about 1,800,000
miles long, swings back and
forth through an arc of 15 de
grees once every four days dur
ing its orbit.
Secondary Tails
Smithsonian Astrophysical Ob
servato.y and the Harvard Col
lege Observatory in Cambridge,
Mass., also found that the com
et's tail divides into several
secondary tails which then
merge back into a single tail
during the four-day cycle.
It was the first time that a
periodic wagjing motion had
been seen in a comet's tail.
Malaise said this behavior has
raised several questions about
so'.ar activity, not the least of
wnicn is the solar wind a
gas cloud consisting of atom
fragments which flood out in
all directions from the surface
of the sun. It is this wind that
is believed to create the tails
of comets.
The atom fragments strike
the surface of the comet's hard
Malaise, who is now with the1 core and brush molecular frag
ments and gasses from it and
carry them away from the com
et, scientists believe. This is
the explanation for why comet
tails always point away from
the sun.
Malaise sr'J turbulences in
the solar wind similar to
wind turbulences here on earth
possibly could be the answer
to the tail wagging.
Difficult To Imagine
But "it is difficult to imagine
why the solar wind velocity
would sweep back and forth
with i periodicty of four days
wnicn cannot be correlated with
anything in the solar system,"
Malaise said.
He is now trying to determine
whether the tails of other com
ets also make similar motions.
Burnham 1960 II was dis
covered by Dr. Robert Burn-
ham of the Lowell Observatory
at Flagstaff, Ariz., in 1959. It
is designated 1960 II because
it was the first comet observed
to pass that point closest in its
orbit to tne sun in i960.
Its head is 125,000 miles in
diameter, considered medium'
sized, and it has a relatively
snort tail, 1,180,000 miles long.
By ROBERT MUSEL
LONDON (UPI) - Prince
Charles celebrates his 15th birth
day today (Nov. 14) with
royal circles beginning to specu
late about a future tor him that
may involve a decision of his
toric importance.
The talk it is only that at
the moment concerns the pos
sibility his mother, Queen Eli
zabeth, may some day abdicate
in his behalf so that he may
rule in the full vigor of man
hood and not have to wait un
til he is an old man as did his
great great-grandfather, King
Edward VII.
The young heir to the throne
is too busy "swotting" the
schoolboy word for studying
hard for the most critical
examination of his career at
Gordonstoun School in Scotland
to worry about dynastic gossip.
rolrows These Lines
This, perhaps, is just as well
for it may never come to pass.
Yet the speculation does exist
and at this stage it goes some
thing like this:
The womenfolk oi tne Wind
sors are long-lived and Queen
Elizabeth is only 37. In the or
dinary course of events Prince
Charles would not become rung
Charles III until he is quite
elderly.
The choice, men, is to prepare
Charles for the crown when he
is, say, 30 years old or to risk
a repetition of the case of King
Edward VII who was a tired 60
when his mother Queen Victoria
died in 1901 at the age of 81.
He outlived her less than eight
years.
There is no precedent in tne
ancient history of the monarchy
for an abdication such as would
be required of Queen Elizabeth
if the speculation ever progress
es to reality.
Could Advise Son
But those who have heard it
concede there is at least a
measure of logic involved.
Queen Elizabeth would be 52,
still young enough to continue
many royal duties and to act
as an invaluable adviser to her
son from her own experience.
She would, however, be
spared the arduous traveling
around the Commonwealth and
the world which have exhausted
her in the past and would be
even more likely to do so in
the future.
And Charles, by that time,
presumably would have an
equally young and energetic
queen at his side.
Charles, however, will be
thinking of more immediate
matters for this birthday. At
his, age 15 Gordonstoun
gives its pupils a "future ca
reer" examination which is in
tended to determine where their
aptitudes lie.
Like any other student
Charles will head apprehensive
ly home at Christmas in the
knowledge his parents will have
in their hands an analysis of his
talents from the headmaster.
Queen Elizabeth and the Duke
of Edinburgh will use this re
port in a discussion with their
son on his next schooling Dart
mouth Royal Naval College for
a career in the navy or Sand
hurst Military College as prep
aration for the Grenadier
Guards.
The sailor Duke and his son
both prefer the navy but the en
trance requirements are very
high and Charles, though he is
a good student, is not a brilliant
one. Whatever service is chosen
he will start training in about
a year.
Serious Boy
On the threshold of his 16th
year Charles who is Duke of
Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay,
Earl of Carrick, Lord of the
Isles and Great Steward of Scot
land as well as Prince of Wales
is a quiet, serious boy more
like his mother than his father
in looks and character.
He has her blue eyes and
thick brown hair and he is, like
the Queen, determined and tena
cious rather than inspirational.
He is a good swimmer and en
joys go-kart racing but he does
not gather the same excitement
his father docs from outdoor
life. He is only a mediocre
horseman and shot and prefers
photographing wild life to
shooting it.
Sometime after he is 16
Charles will be the center of
the colorful ceremony of inves
titure as Prince of Wales amid
the ruins of ancient Caernarvon
Castle from whose battlements
the Queen will present him to
the people of Wales.
This will be like a small-scale
coronation. The Prince will
wear velvet and ermine robes
over court dress with silk knee
breeches and the Queen, assist
ed by bishops and before a
great gathering of Welsh digni
taries in traditional attire, will
"crown" him with a cap of
cloth-of-gold. , costume with a gilt circlet on don, the former photographer
The ceremony will be staged his head and flourish a drawn Anthony Armstrong-Jones, who
by the constable of Caernarvon sword. is married to Princess Mar
Castle who will wear a grey silk The constable is Lord Snow- garet.
AQUARIUM GETS CRAB - A giant crab to the Vancouver, B. C, Aquarium by the
measuring nearly four feet In diameter and Wakefield Fisheries of Alaska. Nancy Ken
weighing 15 pounds is one of four presented ' nett inspects the huge crustacean. (UPI)
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