Evening star., 1949-05-05
irregularities in Orbit
Of Planet Eros Studied
MAY Provide New Msa.usxnens
al Sun and Earth n.saaces
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earth IN 1891 TnreagssosH The ysaF ehasysa.
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results sent 10 tee Asltnnaznet~ ResAI Fyan
them ne dedaced q naean distance Al TIE
sun as % oes 900 mtlea several hundred
thousand miles moit than had ee~a assumed
IN the past
Tho calculation said SIR AAsead Who Il
eonferTtng with Naval Observatory aSsraao-
naers here. WAS based entirely on The tn.
ansulaiian method q, assrFmla.ag ax,sn.
nofnAeal distances. THIS is liable 10 Aaxss.
matte errors in observation
The calculations based on the pull q! Efsss
oS t1e sun and planets sItv an entirely
different basis for measurement ne kala.
which will be used as a cheek AgAtns. h.s
o~n calculations he Is confident however.
that they viii not cause much change
IL never has been possible he sad 10
~eash Venus very accurately and this is
important for a clear understanding OF Tire
mechanics Of the solar system II IA rs.a.
lively easy. he pointed out. 10 determine ths
mass OF planet which has q satellite Of ia
own, as the moon Is q satellite Of the earth,
The weight Is determined by the atlractkan
OF one for The other al relatively shnFt
distances
Venus Is moonless II vas bound hoe.
ever. to have eSerted pail on Eros ct tinss
OF the planetolds cloSe approaches
Trichinosis. the devil disease has tn
rsded the Arctic
The malady. acquired by humans only By
eatine infected pork, Is believed hy Nons
authorities the original reason for tire
Jewish pork taboo
Last summer 1t was found that II had
broken out among polar bears and some
Eskimos had been infected by eating them
animals OF the Far North
or little importance in itself. the nndlnk
has great theoretical siRnifcance-ihe ability
OF q malady whose milieu has been nNed for
hundreds OF centuries suddenly To estAhilkh
itself In q new host apd an entirely new
environment
Had the circumstances been a little differ
ent. said one government BIOLOGIST II mixht
have been considered the rrst successful uAa
OF bioloeieal warfare on record.
Secret German STATEN
1t appears that during the war the German
navy established a secret weather station on
Franz josef Land north Of Russia, where
they obtained information invaluable for
preying on North Atlantic commerce Ons
day the German admiralty sot q distress
message from this station. All ten men
were sick and tn great agony.
A plane was sent 10 rescue them They
were 1own TO Oslo where they were hospital
lied several months for trichlnoSis The
leader OF the party said that the only raw.
or partially cooked. meat his men had eaten
was that OF polar bear.
This Information has Just been rslayed
to the Arctic Institute Of North America
through DR., vilhIaimar Stsfansson. the Are.
tic explorer.
II is still an open question whether the
Germans may not accidentally have intro
duced the disease, All Arctic stations have
been warned Of the danger OF eating infected
bear meat.