SKY SNOOPING
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has reported 1,600 sightings to the American Meteor Soci
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Aerospace Engineering Gets
$21,000 Research Grant
A $21,000 Sandia Corporation
grant to Texas A&M has been
announced by Harry E. Whit
more, Space Technology Division
head.
The one-year Sandia grant
funds research work in the Gas
Dynamics Lab 12-inch arc-driven
shock tube at the Research Annex.
Dr. Richard E. Thomas, pro
fessor of aeropace engineering,
heads the project. The research
will employ graduate aerospace
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Wednesday, November 30, 1966 College Station, Texas Page 3
Graduate Dean Joins OTS Board
engineering students Gary Haw
kins of El Paso, James Reed of
Festus, Mo., and Alton Stephens
of Beaumont, Thomas said.
Under the grant, studies will be
made to determine the effects of
metal vapors on reaction charac
teristics of gases like nitrogen
and oxygen.
“SPACECRAFT ENTERING
planetary atmospheres cause a
shock wave and high tempera
tures,” Dr. Thomas explained.
“Diatomic molecules thus heated
fly apart. It is important to know
the rate at which this happens
and how the rate is affected by
metal elements present.”
The scientist said molecular
changes affect lift and drag
forces and heat transfer rate on
the vehicle.
Solid fuel rocket engine pro
pellants utilize metal fragments
to improve performance, Thomas
added.
“Through study of relatively
simple mixtures in the Sandia re
search, we will begin to learn how
to describe the more complex
processes occurring in the nozzle
of a solid fuel rocket engine,” he
went on.
“WE WILL study principally
the affect of aluminum vapors on
nitrogen,” the project director
noted.
He said several basic chemical
and physics problems must be
solved in order to carry out ex
periments.
Other special equipment to be
used includes a four-foot by 14-
inch test chamber and spectro
meter.
Missing sleep is a way of life
for David Swann, a Texas A&M
sophomore from Dallas.
The amateur astronomer has
given up about 1,000 hours of
sack time since he became inter
ested in the celestial panorama
four years ago.
The 19-year-old student wants
to make the night-time hours his
regular working schedule after he
receives his physics degree at
A&M. He then plans graduate
study at a school specializing in
astronomy.
“I’ve wanted to do serious
astronomical work since I was in
grade school,” the slender, brown
haired student remarked.
About 350 hours of his sunless
sessions have been devoted to
scientific meteor observation.
Since he started tracking the
brilliant flashes in 1962, Swann
has logged more than 1,600
meteors.
AMONG THE 700 charted this
year was the recent brilliant
Leonid display. Swann’s decision
to attend A&M assured him a
chance to see the Leonids, since
the 1966 shower was observed
only in the Southwest.
He is a member of the Rhode
Island Meteor Research Organiza
tion and was the only person in
that group who viewed the phe
nomenon, because of overcast skies
on the East Coast. The cadet
joined the Rhode Island group
while attending Keystone Oaks
High in Pittsburgh. He also is a
member of the American Meteor
Society.
Swann, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Herman L. Swann, 9305 Larch-
wood Drive, Dallas, has viewed
the stars from High Point, N. C.;
Norfolk, Va.; Annapolis, Md.;
Washington, D. C.; Lewes, Del.;
Pittsburgh and the Canal Zone.
HIS FATHER is with Conti
nental Electronics of Dallas and
was formerly a Navy technician.
The elder Swan first interested
David and his older brother, Her
man, a veterinary medicine stu
dent at A&M, in star-gazing when
the family resided in Pittsburgh.
While there, he studied stellar
classes at the Allegheny Observa
tory, which houses a 31-inch re
fractor, fifth largest in the world.
The blue-eyed Army ROTC
cadet has his own three-inch re
fractor which he uses for nebular,
planetary, stellar and lunar view
ing.
The amateur astronomer lec
tured on meteors and stellar
classes in a course he took as a
freshman at A&M. The class,
Physics 314, is normally a junior
course, but Swann was allowed to
take it as a “fish” because of his
background.
“I THINK HIS educational
plan is wise,” noted Dr. Nelson
M. Duller, A&M physics professor
who taught Swann in 314. “By
getting a physics degree at A&M,
he will have excellent ground
work in physics and mathematics
which will be required in his later
astronomical studies.”
“I haven’t really decided what
branch of astronomy I want to
study,” said the star-gazer who
often recruits Company C-l cadets
for midnight vigils. He will prob
ably do graduate work in one of
his present areas of interest—
meteors or star classification.
Swann’s training is well under
way, though. And his early eve
ning alarm clock bell doesn’t rouse
his roommate, Mike Harvey of
Fort Worth.
“Mike’s a sound sleeper,” Dave
grinned.
Dr. Wayne C. Hall, academic
vice president of Texas A&M
University and dean of its grad
uate college, has been elected to
the board of directors of the
Organization for Tropical
Studies.
OTS is composed of universi
ties interested in the develop
ment of instructional and re
search programs pertaining to the
tropics.
The organization in the past
has concentrated its efforts on
tropical biology in Costa Rica,
with graduate courses and re
search offered under a grant from
the National Science Foundation.
A&M, which joined OTS last
year, will assume leadership in
formulating plans and programs
in the area of tropical meteor
ology.
Dean Hall’s appointment to the
three year-term on the OTS board
was announced at a recent advis
ory council and board of direc
tors meeting in New Orleans.
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