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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Wednesday, May 17, 1972
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Ernie
Pioneer 10 will enter space
never visited by spacecraft
“It’s good to get back on the summer schedule of one
cartoon per week. Next week we’ll get organized.”
Pioneer 10, bound for Jupiter,
will cross the orbit of Mars on
May 25 and will then enter space
never before visited by a space
craft.
According to Pioneer officials
at NASA’s Ames Research Cen
ter, Mountain View, Calif., the
spacecraft will have crossed the
50 million miles separating the
orbits of Earth and Mars in 12
weeks compared with about five
months for previous Mars-bound
spacecraft.
Pioneer has just entered a re
gion named by some scientists
the “Great Galactic Ghoul” that
may contain unusually high
amounts of meteoroids and cos
mic dust. In this region, just in
side the orbit of Mars, several
previous Mars-bound spacecraft
have encountered difficulties, be
lieved by some to be due to im
pact by high-velocity meteoroids.
The Pioneer 10 spacecraft is
the fastest man-made object ever
flown. Its curved flight to Mars’
y\ &Ms radar system to be transfered
for use in West Texas weather project
A&M’s 10.3-centimeter radar
antenna system will be trans
ferred to a federal agency June 1
for use in the San Angelo Cum
ulus Project, a weather modifi
cation project to put water in
West Texas reservoirs.
Known as the TAM-1 by Me
teorology Department personnel,
the 15-foot antenna, pedestal and
possibly the drive mechanism will
go to the Bureau of Reclamation,
prime contractor in the San An
gelo project.
The Texas Water Development
Board and Meteorology Research
Inc. of Altadena, Calif., also are
involved in the project, the lat
ter in flying and seeding cumu
lus clouds to trigger rainfall.
Dr. Robert A. Clark, TAMU
meteorology professor, is in
volved in hydrologic evaluation of
the project.
A new radar system will be
installed atop the 15-story ocean
ography-meteorology building for
use in TAMU meteorological re
search.
“It will be a vastly improved,
multi-frequency radar system,
the only one of its kind in the
world,” explained Dr. Vance E.
Moyer, meteorology head.
With three coaxial antenna on
a common pedestal, the new sys
tem will operate at 10.3 and 3.2
centimeter wavelengths, frequen
cies of the present matched sys
tem, and also at 1.25 cm.
“The 1.25 radar has a nar
rower beam and will improve
resolution,” Moyer explained.
Components of the present in
stallation at Goodwin Hall other
than the pedestals, antennae and
drives will be incorporated into
the new system, Clark said.
Moyer emphasized that none
of the equipment going to San
Angelo could be used in the new
system.
“We will probably be without
radar coverage for six months,
the time required for some equip
ment to be transferred to the
new building and. incorporated
with the new equipment,” Moyer
indicated. “We will try to be
Abortions contrasted
available for public
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back in operation by the 1973
tornado season.”
Installation at the new build
ing will begin this summer, he
said.
The new antenna and mount
ing, built by Scientific Atlanta
Inc. of Atlanta, Ga., to depart
ment specifications, is now in
storage at the Texas A&M Re
search Annex.
The 15-foot dish of the pres
ent system was purchased
through a National Science Foun
dation grant to Dr. Moyer. The
pedestal, modified by the depart
ment’s radar engineer, Jake Can-
gelose, was surplus acquired at
Holloman AFB, N.M.
The Goodwin Hall matched ra
dars have been employed with
precipitation measurements from
the East Yegua Creek basin west
of Caldwell in studies to correlate
rainfall amounts with radar-ac
quired data, among other re
search projects. It has been
used several years in a severe
weather alert system.
£ n f s* »•••*** £7
in film
rental
A unique abortion film, “Each
Child Loved,” is now being made
available to the public by Planned
Parenthood-World Population.
The first film of its kind, “Each
Child Loved” dramatically con
trasts safe legal abortion with
illegal abortion. It is mainly the
story of Carol, a young mother
who becomes pregnant at a time
when neither she nor her husband
are ready for a second child.
Carol decides on abortion, and
her experience is documented
from the time she and her hus
band are counseled by a clergy
man, through the operation itself
and post-abortion counseling.
The film stresses the right of
each woman to have children only
when she is ready to love and
care for them. It also emphasizes
the use of contraception as the
best way to limit births and the
necessity for competent medical
abortion as a backup technique
when contraception does not work.
“Each Child Loved” is a 16 mm
color film. It runs 37 minutes.
Commentary is by Candice Ber
gen. Frank Kavanaugh wrote and
directed the movie.
The film was produced by Arlie
Productions in cooperation with
the Medical and Public Affairs
Department of George Washing
ton University Medical School,
the National Clergymen’s Consul
tation Service on Abortion and
Planned Parenthood-World Popu
lation.
“Each Child Loved” may be
purchased for $225 by writing
Peter Tangal, Audio-visual Coor
dinator/Information and Educa
tion Department, Planned Parent
hood-World Population, 810 Sev
enth Ave., New York, N.Y. 10019.
The movie may be rented by
writing PPWP Film Library, 267
W. 25th St., New York, N.Y.
10011. The cost is $14 for one day,
$21 for two days and $35 for one
week.
Thomas H. Rennie given
study award by Sigma Xi
The Society of the Sigma Ki
announced last week through the
chairman of its grants-in-aid of
research committee, Dr. Harold
G. Cassidy, an award to Thomas
H. Rennie of A&M.
This award has been made to
Rennie to assist him in his study
of “The zooplankton community
of two Texas bays: Spatial-sea
sonal distribution, abundance and
initial effects of a thermal efflu
ent.”
In making the announcement,
Cassidy said “Sigma Xi each year
makes a number of grants to
promising scientists at critical
points in their research careers.
We recognize that many needs
are relatively too small for the
large foundations to consider, yet
to the scientist himself the need
may be critical. It is to meet
these needs that our research
fund is maintained.”
Founded in 18S6, the Society of
the Sigma Xi now has 178 chap
ters and more than 241 clubs in
the major colleges and universi
ties in the United States and
Canada. Sigma Xi, with an ac
tive membership of 110,000 scien
tists, sponsors 20 national lec
tureships, publishes American
Scientist and in the academic
year 1970-71 made awards in
support of research totalling
$78,893.
Glover receives grant
Dr. George I. Glover, assistant
professor of chemistry at A&M,
has received a $38,000 National
Science Foundation grant to study
how cells transport selected nu
trients through cell walls.
The two-year study is entitled
“Affinity Labeling of Amino
Acid Transport Proteins.” Col
laborating with Dr. Glover are
Dr. Clint W. Magill, assistant pro
fessor of genetics, and Dr. Roy
Jensen of the Baylor College of
Medicine, Houston.
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orbit is
and it
136 million miles long,
has moved along this
flight path at an average speed
of about 120,000 kilometers 75,000
miles an hour. During the later
parts of its 22-month flight to
Jupiter next year, solar gravity
will slow the spacecraft to around
25,000 miles an hour. It will speed
up again near Jupiter.
Pioneer 10 has now covered
about 124 million miles of its 620
million mile flight path to Jupi
ter, and is 31 million miles
straight-line distance from
Earth.
Pioneer 10 will enter the Aster
oid Belt to make man’s first
probe of this unexplored region
on about July 1. It will take
about seven months to cross this
175 million-mile wide belt of
rock fragments and cosmic rub
ble between the orbits of Mars
and Jupiter.
All the spacecraft’s 11 on
board scientific instruments now
have been turned on and are
functioning well.
In recent days, Pioneer flight
directors have turned on the last
of those, the infrared radiometer,
which will make measurements
of heat radiation emitted by Jup
iter. Instrument readings of
background heat radiation in
space, used to check out the in
strument, were at expected lev
els.
The meteoroid instrument and
the four asteroid-meteoroid tele
scopes continue to see unusually
large numbers of meteoroids and
dust particles. Experimenters
now are completing calibration
of the optics of the four asteroid
telescopes, using sightings of
Jupiter. These calibrations will
allow measurements of meteor
oid speed and direction, using
the precisely-known overlaps of
the fields of view of the tele
scopes.
The imaging photopolarimeter
has made its first observations
of Mercury and Jupiter. The
polarimeter has measured the in
tensity and polarization of light
from these planets, showing
some characteristics of their at
mospheres or surfaces.
Pioneer 10 will reach Jupiter
Dec. 3, 1973, and will pass about
87,000 miles from the giant plan
et’s surface. It may well pass
behind Jupiter’s orange satellite
lo, the most reflective object in
the solar system, allowing studies
of lo’s atmosphere if it has one.
Jupiter is 1,000 times as large
as the Earth, may contain life
and has its own energy source.
After its swing by Jupiter, the
spacecraft will be the first man
made object to escape the solar
system. Project officials hope its
communications system will re
turn data out past the orbit of
Uranus, about 2 billion miles
from the Sun, a point it will
reach about 7.5 years from now.
A&M professor
honored for paper
Dr. Paul B. Crawford, A&M
petroleum engineering professor,
shared top honors for a paper
presented at a computer simula
tion conference in Boston.
The paper, “A Comparison of
Numerical Methods for Solving
Llarg-e Sets of Simultaneous
Equations,” was co-authored by
Dr. Crawford and Gerald N.
Pitts, a recent Ph.D. graduate of
TAMU.
Dr. Crawford, who also serves
as assistant director of the Tex
as Petroleum Research Commit
tee, said the paper notes methods
for minimizing the expense and
use of manpower in solving large
numbers of scientific equations
with a computer. The material
is especially applicable to the
petroleum industry, he added.
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