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esday, July 27, 1994
The Mercedes Enterprise — Page 3
Mercedes, Texas 78570 •
Arcturus
Spica
Venus
LEO
CORVUS •
West
WORLD-WIDE REASON FOR HIS COMING
STARWATCH
MERCURY is very low in the east baseball-sized chunks. A quarter of a life thriving in frigid Antarctic lakes
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Jupiter
century later, researchers are still
studying them for clues about the
moon’s origin and its relationship with
the Earth.
And, astoundingly, the astronauts
and in superheated vents on the ocean
floor miles deeper than sunlight can
penetrate. But that little critter on the
moon, for my money, beats ‘em all,
surviving, as Jim Kirk used to say
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For me, that microscopic creature
was worth more than all the lunar
rocks and reflectors. “Life is tough,”
it says. “Life can survive without air or
water or anything.” We’ve since found
changed forever our relationship with
the universe. For four billion years,
from the origin of life early in Earth’s
history to that day in July, 1969, no
living creature had left the safe bound-
aries of our home planet to venture
onto another world. Well, not deliber-
ately, as we’ll see.
In all, 12 people, all white Ameri-
can males, have walked on our natural
satellite. From the first man on the
moon, Armstrong, to the last, Eugene
Cernan, we received a steady stream
of moon fare.
For three-and-a-half years we
watched hazy television pictures of
men in bulky spacesuits saluting flags,
driving golf balls, riding moon bug-
gies and picking up rocks, all in one
sixth of Earth gravity. And then ...
nothing. Victim to the increasing costs -
of the Vietnam war and public indif-
ference, the program was aborted, with
only six of 10 planned missions ac-
complished.
The astronauts brought home rocks,
nearly half a ton of them, from dust to
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earlier. In December 1969, Apollo 12
landed within a half-mile of Surveyor
3, a U.S. robot spacecraft which had
soft-landed on the moon in 1967 in
preparation for the manned missions.
Astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean
recovered 25 pounds of gear from the
Surveyor, including its TV camera.
Back on Earth, a terrestrial bacte-
rium was found alive on a piece of
foam inside the camera. The tiny crit-
ter had survived for two years in a
vacuum, in temperatures ranging from
a little above absolute zero to 70 de-
grees centigrade. Formally known as a
streptococcus mitis, it was nothing
special, a spherical bacterium that is a
normal inhabitant of the human mouth
and throat. Related to the “strep throat”
bacterium, it probably arrived on the
foam via an unchecked sneeze.
at dawn at the start of the month,
getting too close to the sun to be seen
later.
VENUS is bright in the western
sky at dusk, but it gets lower and
dimmer as the month progresses.
MARS, balancing on the tip of
Orion’s sword, is well up in the east
before sunrise.
JUPITER, moving from Virgo to
Libra, is in the southwest at sunset. It
sets around 11 p.m.
SATURN, in Aquarius, rises
around dusk and climbs through the
evening sky. Look for it high in the
south at midnight.
THE MOON is new on the 7 th and
full on the night of August 20-21.
LIFE ON THE MOON
Do you remember where you were
25 years ago when Neil Armstrong
made his “one giant leap for man-
kind?”
I was in a campground in Greece,
listening to a shortwave radio, utterly
absorbed in the adventure in space.
Wherever each of was, that step
STA RWATCH FOR AUGUST
1994
WHAT’S HAPPENING IN THE
AUGUST SKIES?
Perseid meteor shower: boom or
bust?
Last year, many of us saw a won-
derful meteor shower, but not the
“storm” that some astronomers had
predicted. This year,, you can look
forward to another good shower... but
- almost certainly - not a storm. The
origin of the Perseids is Periodic Comet
Swift Tuttle, which orbits the sun ev-
ery 130 years.
It came around in the fall of 1992,
once again leaving a ribbon of fine
debris in its path. This littered trail, the
result of many orbits, gives rise to the
Perseid meteors. The material, com-
posed mainly of sand-size particles,
heats to incandescence as it zips
through our atmosphere at high speed,
that is, meteors.
Note the night of August 11-12 on
your calendar and prepare for a good,
if not a great show.
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STARCHART FOR AUGUST 1994
Soon after sunset on August 7, Jupiter and Venus make a pretty pair in
the evening sky. Venus, which sets first, outshines the giant planet
Jupiter.
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Second Latino Film Fest
scheduled for September
Officials ofCineSol, the “Valley’s screenings after the Premier Weekend
own” Latino Film Festival, are proud are free to the public.
to announce plans for the Second An- This year’s special guests include
nual CineSol Latino Film Festival, artist Adan Hernandez, Hector Galan
which will run September 30 - Octo- and Jesse Borrego.
ber 2, and will once again take place at One can find Hernandez’s work in
the South Padre Island Convention New York’s Metropolitan Museum.
Center. His work can also be seen in the film
While still in its finalizing stages, “Blood In, Blood Out” or “Bound By
CineSol will once again be taking films Honor”.
to cities across the Valley, as well as to Hector Galan is the producer of
cities across the border, the officials PBS’s 1993 program, “The Hunt for
say. Pancho Villa”. His latest achievement
CineSol’s “satellite programs” will “Songs of the Homeland," a documen-
be offered in Brownsville, Harlingen, tary that explores the evolution of
San Benito, Weslaco, Edinburg, Mis- Tejano music and the experiences of
sion, Edcouch-Elsa, Matamoros and the Mexican Americans that it so
Reynosa. Additional cities and spe- closely mirrors, will be making a pre-
cific dates will be announced. All mier at this year’s CineSol.
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