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July 1958
ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699
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Articles
Sputniks over Britain
Physics Today 11 (7), 16–21 (1958);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3062643
During the past months numerous newspaper and magazine articles have described the observational techniques used by US scientists associated with the “Moonwatch” and “Minitrack” programs designed for the systematic tracking of artificial earth satellites. The following account, written by an American science liaison officer with ONR's London branch, summarizes the tracking procedures employed by British observers of the first Russian Sputniks.
Books
Radiobeobachtungen des ersten künstlichen Erdsatelliten
Physics Today 11 (7), 30 (1958);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3062652
Les Méthodes nouvelles de la Mécanique céleste and An Introduction to the Study of Stellar Structure
Physics Today 11 (7), 36 (1958);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3062659
Miscellany
Obituaries
We Hear That
Meetings
Calendar
The lessons learned from ephemeral nuclei
Witold Nazarewicz; Lee G. Sobotka
FYI science policy briefs
Lindsay McKenzie; Jacob Taylor