THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1957.
As the moon comes
REALLY nearer
50 FACTS by
CHAPMAN
PINCHER
1 The
moon
alightly miles.
99 One feature, called the could easily accommodate York-
42 Some craters, like
Moon Maiden, looke ko shire and Lancashire, the head of a young girl with long flowing locks, when the sun's rays fall from a certain angic.
33 A huge natural bridge 12 miles long has been seen by, astronomers.
בדת
ono
called Pickering, socin to chango their shape,
19 Samo have been lunown to
result of major landsildes.
dirappent-possibly as a
probably 44
the
There 34
250,000 craters on moon, many of which have been mapped and named.
35 Some, like Copernicus,
55 miles wide, have 0 mountain in the middle.
8.The moon's gravity pull is too 19 It will then move slowly 25 The sky will look black
small to hold on to any
36 towards earth nynin and because of the absence of atmosphere. The air it may may eventually disintegrate, atmosphere which once have hnd has long since escaped into space.
be no smelin
either.
11 There is no water.
It too
has evaporated into space.
20 The full snoon would have 10 be 509,000 times brighter to equal the brightness of the sun.
0
blueness on earth.
causes Bic
These landslides, like enormous cracks, in the
which are au moon's crust formning, are probably due to the extremes of heat and cold.
45 Some gases may exist In
underground canyons, They are sometimes seen istuing Some of these central a dust-faden clouds. peals are 20,000 feet blgå
fael deduced by measuring 46 Peculiar spots moving as the height of the shadows they, • though with some pur- pose, resenily seen by astrono- mers, suggest that some animai
moon,
26 The temperature on the cast. moon varies between 243 9 Because there by name
degrees Fahrenheit above the 37 The craters may have life may possibly exist in the sphere and sound cannot
been formed by volcanle canyons. travel through a vacuum. there
boiling point of water-by day
giant bubbles which is complete slence on the moon. On IL reflects back Uke and minus 238 degrees Fahren- selivity,
21
burst when the moon was mol. 47.There is also some evl intrros, some of it sun's helt at night.
dence of vegetation on the ten or by bombardment by 10 There can
light which is reflected it by the earth When the moon in 27 The moon is believed once meteors from space.
to have been joined to new this "earth light" lumin- the earth.
Sca of Showars, 18 Astronomers believe that. about seven miles deep I only thin layer of ates the dark sogment of the
about one inth, so we of the old moon 28 So it probably consists of and 350 miles wide, is believed pumice-like fluct
basically the same rocks, to have been caused by collision millimetre thick and probably in the arms of the new."
with a ball of Iron about 10 formed by impact with meteor- on its axis that one · day
Το
*There varies here lasts 14 of our days.
are 10 which
huge miles in diameter. earth will
through mountain ranges on the averages 240,000
The nights
14 husts. At the time of full moon visible side, oru
they will see "new earth”; në earth rights long.
distance to the 12 The moon turns so slowly
too
no
moon
visitors
до
ibe 29
how moon "full earth.'" 30 These
38 The
0
when they
Washbowl, has a hole in moon the middle like a plug-hole. Seven
40 One crater, called
streaks 49 39 Bright rays
radiate from some of the occasional are as jagged as craters. Their rature is u brown and
were formed. known.
through telescopes. 15 FLO Tain or
The
of
ites, covers the rocks.
moon's surface is almost colourless, though
unts
purple
of
green,
arc
たです
13.
about 14 The moon rotates once in
round the sites to 23 The sun takes an hour to wet orbit earth. So it rise and set on the moon, wind to erode them. always keeps the sume
2 The
ін moon 2,200 miles in diameter.
3
It ic 50 times smaller
4
In volume than the earth,
turned towards us.
ince
I1 moves along its clip 15 Because of slight varia-
#ical orbli round the earth at 2.300 miles an hour.
tions is possible to see
a little way round the other side of the moon.
16 The moon stays up because
The is Jess thin one- seventh
fast $15
ihe as
ils forward speed, which
Russian dog-currying satellite. would send it off into space, is
6 Gravity on
the moon
Just balanced by the earth's bas bull,
only about one-sixth the
pull it hus on earth.
Men on the not would
therefore
stride.
It is slowly moving further
out from earth,
In 50,000,000 years' ime
lep rather than 18 It will be 340,000 miles
Cummings
away.
JOHNSONALCOCK & BROWN
There Is One nearly mountain
If you bend down and the 50
look at the moon through your lega It looks much smaller than when you view it stand- Nobody has yet ux-
24 Seen from the moon the 31
carth will look four times mites high-much higher than 41 Another, called Ptolemy, ing up..
near the moon's centre, plained this.
as big as the moon does to us.
"THE WRIGHT BROTHER
SALUTE
די
Everesi,
GEORGE GALE ASKS:
Are we off
our heads?
BLERION
DID You observe a
silent minute at 11 o'clock Remembrance Sunday morning? Will you today?
Did you fill that minute thinking and praying that in dog would return safely to earth? Will you today? You may not know it, but you have been asked to do so by a body calling itself the National Canine De- fence League.
Once a year you are asked to stand silent for two minutes, remembering the milliona of dead of two world wars, But
for one dog, you are asked to do a daily stint.
How silly can you gel?
'Scandal'
QAYS Lady Munnings
S
About
use of Little Lemon:
"It is an absoluto scandal. Why
Members of Britain's National Canine Defence League leaving the Soviet Embassy, London after delivering a protest against Russia's sending a dog -up into space in a rocket-satellite.
not use child murderers, who better burn only peat, for your Just get life sentences and have coal and electriclty and gas ja jolly good time in prison?" nity have come from the coal
hauled by some wretched pit
Listen, Lady Munnings, if I pony.
hart a Sputnik und wanted to I am no admirer of modern put something alive in it, you scientists. They have sold out would be my first candidate.
and resources
Two questions, Lady Munnings. to the politicians, and ate busy Have you ever had a fur coat? using talents
cure cancer or Have you ever been in prison? which could
Irrigate deserts to make Says Donald Campbell: "It's weapons of destruction.
Just cold-blooded murder," Ever worry, Mr Campbell,, about all the poor fish you might bit breaking your own water-speed records?
Says Mrs Mirabel Topham: "If these tests must be made, why not use some of the worst type of criminals? It is a great shamo use animals like this." Why not, Mrs Topham, use the worst type of criminals as the borses in your own Grand National? Then, when they fell, criminals you could shool the Instead of the horses.
Her poodle
Useless
THE Sputnik is a useless thing.
It will add to the concell' of men. But it is folly of the worst klad, with this thing circling our every hour, to worry globe about the dog inside.
wo
It is the men outside, the men a thousand miles beneath,
about. ought to be worrying Especially we ought to worry about the politicfans who order these machines; Did the scientists who make them.
We shall not stop the inchines being mude, but we may be able to prevent their
MISS Sandra Hobdell, a City worst uses If we stop talking
accretary, is a little more honest but no less confused. "Why can't they use a monkey or a guinea-pig, which people don't feel for as peis? I wouldn't let them send my poodle Sury In a rocket."
wants
But nobody
to send your poodle Suzy in a rocket, Sandra. And some people have monkeys and guinea-pigs as pels *
If the Russians sent up a rat instead of a dog, would any of you sentimental animal-lovera have raised the alightest squeak? Do you bother about dogs on tends, birds in 'cagès, Ash in tankat Do you bother about Grand National horses, hunt-
ing, shooting, fishing?
Of course you don't.
Do you stand for a minute's ellence for each cat slaugh- tered on the roads?
Do you stand for a minute's ailence for each child· sinugh- tored? Have you over stood in Fallence for a child murdered?
Do the Japanese fishermen, mutilated by atomic radiation, CHUNG"You uny loss of sleep?
Ialston, you "sentimental | Bob-", stone. You tight to be vogelers, fan, ought to wear only linen ör cotton or nylon," and 'you hat
tripe about dogs, and begin talking sense about men.
POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
"That'll salva-the, brutes something to think, about
as they, hurile, through
quiet, space!!!!
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