Death of Sputnik I
Predicted for
December 11
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., UP)—The
Smithsonian Astrophysical Ob
servatory predicted yesterday that
Russia’s first satellite rocket will
make a flaming plunge to earth
on December 11.
The prediction on the fall of
man’s first satellite was based on
computations by Dr. Leland E.
Cunningham of the University of
California and his staff at the
radiation laboratory at Liver
more, Calif.
Dr. Cunningham, formerly of
Harvard, used data on Sputnik I
forwarded to him by the Smith
sonian Observatory.
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Dr. Fred L. Whipple, Smithson
ian director, says the Russian sat
ellites have compressed 200 years I
of astronomy into four weeks so
far.
He said Monday night that nev
er before in the history of astron
omy have scientists been able to
study a satellite which has trav
eled as far as the Russian earth
moons.
SPUTNIK A MUTTNIK?
SAN FRANCISCO, UPi—Folks
who have been dubbing the new
satellite “Muttnik” may not be
aware of it, but “muttnik” is a real
Russian word. But its meaning
has nothing to do with a dog
carrying satellite.
“It means “cne who fishes in
muddy waters,” said Capt. Robert
Kamdron yesterday. Kamdron, 32.
of Seattle, is a Russian-born tank
er pilot for the Union Oil Co.
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Soviet Scientist Confirms Russians
Have Developed New Super-Fuel;
Rocket to Moon ‘Before Too Long’
By HAROLD K. MILKS
MOSCOW, UP)—A Soviet scien
tist yesterday confirmed previous
hints that the Russians developed
a new super-fuel for the Sputniks.
T. Khachaturov wrote in the
Transport Ministry newspaper
Gudok that “in order to reach the
enormous speed of 8 kilometers
per second it was necessary to
produce new fuels for rockets.”
The s^eed he mentioned would
be five miles a second, or 18,000
miles an hour, about the speed of
Sputnik I and slightly greater
than the reported speed of Sput
nik II. >
Khachaturov also described an
“electrical brain which could cor
rect any deviation in Sputnik’s
movement before it entered its
orbit.”
I. Isakov, a Stalin Prize winner
in biological science, said in the
Communist youth newspaper “So
viet” that scientists may celebrate
the 50th anniversary of the Com
munist revolution on the moon.
This prediction—less spectacu
lar than that by some Soviet writ
j ers—indicated there still were
I many problems to be solved be
! fore man can be blasted into space
j with the hope of returning alive.
(Some scientists in the United
[ States, including Clyde Tom
baugh, discoverer of the planet
Pluto, say the Russians already
may have fired a rocket with the
intention of landing it cn the
moon Thursday, the 40th anniver
sary of the Bolshevik revolution.
He estimated it would take about
four days for a rocket to reach
the moon.)
Prof. Yuri Khlevbzevich, speak
ing on Moscow radio’s foreign
service, predicted Russian scien
tists would be able to send a rock
et to the moon, around it, and
back “before too long.”
In the youth newspaper article,
Isakov said, “We believe that in
the next 5 or 10 years flights of
humans into cosmic space, per
haps with landings on other plan
ets of our sun’s system will be a
reality. Possibly the 50th anniver
sary of the great October revolu
tion will be celebrated on the
moon just as we are now celebrat
ing the 40th on our planet.”
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