3. OAT!T1MI G~' 1. LEN~TH Ofl OISI~YATIOM 4-5 s ec'Jnds tO. BRIEl' SUMMARY opr SIGHTING PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 2. LOCATION rsrael .. Cairo .. Ef.!vot ._ TYPI! OJI OBS&RVATION :EDGreund-Vt auel 0 AhVhuol I. HUMI!R Oil OIUECTS 9. COURS! one Northerly 1 I. COMMENTS Luminous obj traveling SE to North. Observed fm Port Said trailing white smoke at approximately Sl,OOOft. Obj fQll into ~tediterranean Sea. Smoke visible for 5 minutes after descent. Sane object observed fm Israel in seve1 al locations. Photographs of smoke taken. Trail persisted fm 1544Z until l617Z. Photos taken at 1615Z ATIC FORM l29 (R~V 25 SEP 52) COMCLUStoNI D Wos Bellooft c Probeltly Balloon D Poasl Wy Bollooft Was Aircraft 0 Prolaltly Aircraft Po ssi W y AIrcraft Q.cxWos Astrefta"'ical Meteor 0 Probably AstreftO"'ical 0 Possibly AYtreno,..icol 0 Insufficient Data for Evaluation 0 Unkno'Wft TEC ~SCOPE CIIAttus t\ . Ft:rn:1u:R, jM., t:.dttor .Jos:l'lr .hHnRooK, Trclmical Editor Cop~ rig-hr. 1 !HU. hy SK" Iunu~HI Mi C m tPoJt .\TioN, ;t II rights rcscn ecl. Vol. XXVi, No. 1 C 0 \1 E R : O n S~?lember 26, 1 9~2. shortly aftftf sunset, brllll,nt fir~ball was seen through out ltr..tel from plo:'CitS s w idely sepr8ted as 400 k1lometers. Nathen Saden, at Beersheebe ift IOu thrn ,., .. 1, took ,.,~ iront-co~ter photograph of the meteor's long-enduring train. He '~s~d 11 ~olleiflex camera a t f /4, exposure 1/125 second on IIford FPJ film. At h is the tr.in ws 30-olO d~gr .. s bqve the horlton. (See adjoining column.) FIREBALL TRAIN OBSERVED OVER ISRAEL ........... A;\l INTERNATIONAL D ISCUSSION OF MILKY WAY RESEARCH BARNARD'S STAR AS AN ASTROMETRIC BINARY THE lARGE RADIO TELESCOPE OF OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY -John D. Kraus RECENT VISUAL OBSERVATIONS OF MARS AN\ERICAN ASTRONOMERS REPORT ...... SPACE AND SATELLiTE NEWS ......... Th~ H. P. Wil~t~ Obw,.,etory In Teus-ihom1s Jones Camet Hunting During the Eclipse-Francois V . Donin and Bertram Donn BOOKS AND THE SKY William Herschel Tables of th~ Moon a nd S un and tl,e S<y-Th~ S tory of the Universe, Unit IV: The Universe T Coronae Borelit -A R~urring Nova A Polar Adiustmertt Oevic. for Port.tble Moon rings-Hans Pfteumer F.bricating Grinding Tool-Ronld A. Zussman and Richard Monnier A CreamSeperetor Mounting with Menuel Drive -Richard 0. Thoms N~ws of Comet A lcock {l963b) NGC Numbers for Nonon' s "Star Atlas" -W.illim Deep-Sky Wonders-WaitM' Scott Houston Obs~rving the Moo,. Jctr.sen-Alike K. Herring H. Meyer, Jr. Pnolographing the _..\oon e n High<ontrast .Film-J oh!' T. Hopf Fireball Train Observed Over Israel VERY ntt t enr oh~cncr~ drt;un j, ~omctillll' to wit11c.~s a n ;llly grc :tt firch:-~ II. 1\f )' drca 111 he c. a me true on 1 ftc I C\'ertin:{ or St:ptcrnhc r 26, 196~. at the vil- la~c: wllt'r~ I am " ~dcnre tettchcr, ahuut :!C) kllomete n south or llair and threc- kilomCil'f~ (rom the coa~t. It wa<t ;tllout 15 minutes ~fter ~unset, ami I hacl ~one on t1 ~hort \\'alk to enjoy a fine , p erreclly doudlt"s~ evening. t\t l:i:tJf~ U rtivers<tl t ime, I w.ts lookin~ toward the p oint where the sun h a d ~c.t. whert su<lctenly my attention wa~ caught by a burst of light to my ldt. Turniu~. I saw a g reat drop o[ brilliant \\:hite li~ht d escend slowly down the sky, leaving an e xtremely intense sharp train, whme hrighwess ~wiftly spread l>ackward along it~ length. estimated the duration o( fall as three scc.onds, Lut p erhaps it was mudt lcs'i. ' The fireball ftrst appeared 12 o r l8 d e- grees :-~hove the h o ri1.on (I could n o t he sure a~ I was acing in a n othe r direction) , altll di'iappeared at four t o five degrees. The path , w~s inclined 70 d egrees west- we~rd to the h o rilOtt, and the azimuth o the point or di'iappear:-~nce was 15 deg rees we$t o south, .ts estimated :-~fterwarc.l (rom Polaris. This fireb;lll was intermedia te in bright n ess b etween V enus and the full m oon, probahly neare r the latte r , and its hue r esembled the white of burning magnesi um ribbon . The train was at first intense ly white , but within seconds it changed into a ,o l un~n o f very strongly red and orang e clouds, these tints undoubtedly influen.:ed by the sunset. The train thickened ~, nd slowly beca:me distorted into zigzags. As a who le, rhe train did not drift, but r e- mained s u spended without mo\em ent'in Slo wly fading ;mel hecoming white once m ore, the last scauered clouds of the train could be seen until 16 :22 -that is, ~6 minutes afte r th~ fa II. Undoubtedly I i6 ~ ' : .roufd hav,e .tracect'-il'}oQJ~e~) ! had .bac.l. a I in~ormr<l t h e p rco;i :ulCl r a d io, and m ) FE A T U R E P I C T U R E : A close-up of t.,e Alta i Sco~rp region of th~ rncon, photographed /Aarc h 25, 1962, with the 120-inch r eflector o f l iclc Observ.ttory. (See paJe 19.) .... Center ~:~\' :\ =' D TFLI:SCO PE is published mQnthly hr Slty Puhli~hintt Cor pora ion, lfAHard C'.,nll~ge ~rva c;.,, , hridl:f' 38. ~f.,;;l. Stc:nnd-cl.aq P"~tago: raid ;, t D~ton, M.,~. s . !J,criptiou: $;.cy, pe r Yt."M i n UH P'.'itt.>d Stat~ :md P<'".''"''(JIIS; ~9.00 ~or !WI! v.: n; $13 .00 fnr tllrf'' , . To (;.,n:lc! 1 . ~(cxco, a111l ;,II cnllntrt,., uf tit,. p,,n Amenc .\ n Pn,I0\1 U rlll)n , ~l,.(t(l fo r o n e yc;u-; $11.11.) '' I Io r tl.tte Yf':'II"S. c .. n;uli.U\ 3 0 <1 o ther {011'11(0 f!"101lt3nrf't slwuhf Itt: 1JI,Ifle In llll tr~d S t a tes CII(Tf'llt' Y !. c ry '"' rcnh. /tuck iw.us : Novf'm hf!r, 1~)9, to j>rf' Ynl, r,o CC'IIt~ pc:r copy. V ol . I th rough xvrrr \ ' I ""'''' ~ of chotll((~ of allclrt>u mll'lt be ~tnt tJn.-month in .ll.lv;wre ami :u'f'l'ln pl'nicd by ld ami no11 " .. 1111.\l 1 , .;1\~n. R~'tllru >~tr lJ!II fn~m with H'Of'":":ll '"'YIIIC'tl~. (;ircul.~titlf! rn,,,.;,v,er, N:tncy R . l~uhrr. .!.c ulf <; . r h 1-.. llul.<~r, I. ~ .:lroltne !"a~on~, Mai'J S1lv:., Joh~ Stm~ona, Start:a S tr->n,IJ, Cath~nne Wc t!.':l l. ;,,'tur 11 J.J,d Olclvcrust n ( ofhcn~ 49-.iO-.Sl J.ay S t.ltt R d . C.-tnlmoitre :liJ. M.n~. J hone 617 U N 4-7.iHI. prod11ction an~.:..Jv~rtiin~e: ~.1ym~nd .N . w.,tf'l, J r . , (f';ltures. d itc ritl t .... t~ \ IT<"IItt.\ K. ( ''" Lcr j . Roomson. !\dverttSintf r .\leJ are listed tn S TANO.\U RA1Y. ANO DATA SrAYtr. . H; rio, in~ <f.1te is 20t~ of second m~nth pTN:I'dins date or issur. U molicited articlrs :111tl , l 't'' .\t" \oclcnme, hut Jlr,mpt allf'ntlon o r return '' n flf ~uarnnt~. Th .. ul"in'JI'.tl ;; rticlt\ ar" tnr1rJ(('cJ in Till' RrAO~Il't ' Gu111~ TO Jlr!'tn ntr.AI, l.tr~uruAI!. :~ l!c. d "' ~i\.-l'"rmi iun, u;wtn N'fjllf'tt. (nr t h,. USf' o! >KY ,\ N O TI'IUC'ora n:~l~ti:rl .,,,,,,a........ ..u.lt r.r, ,\uti l; t c:rary vur})('-"~. Pcrmiuil)n t l u~e m.tttf'r frr11n 'llf'n.tcJ art:cl,.,, a MI lll.r . ' . oas f11r " " " h crcd11 ;, !>1\,r.n, ,.,..,, :.Is() he t.~hb.in~ fr'>>n the ~non ''' ill'lltu t on C'OIIC't."rnf't1 npol r w ts hrn.1dca'it with the 9 p .m. t' extensive accounts in tltt: h~:<l 'l}'Jrnin~;, m:w!-tp~tpt:r<;, I learned that ~hi!i p ltrtw lllcnou l1acl b e e n witue-;~P<J l>v u r:m y pt:O}tc: through out Israel. [ J'd r t uu:11dy, om of rh t:sc observers w"' 1"\;aqbn ~;rc.lan, in Ueersheeha, ;thout 230 Jlilofllt!Wr~ ~outh <~t Haira. 1 fir sr ~aw hi'i ~! tt 1\ m of 'the tr:-till {o;te rronc cove 1) iH .~ mw'}>.lJH~r. ;mel he kindly supplied :. pruu for -.;1\. Y A~1 Tr:u :sco?r::. ELI ~IETZGER 21 R o'ien Sf . R .un.tt Chert (fcl-.\ vi\') D~t~ch~ent 3 (Euro an 0ffiee) F')re i.~;n T {~t~hnolo l Di vi ~ion UiitT30 ~TATS3 1U R F"OH.GE t\TTN OF: ITI!v8 SUBJ""SCT: -Entry of U no~n Space Obj ect as 'l'O: FT!l (TD-Bl) ~:ight-Patterson AFB, Ohio 1. Reference !TIME message (C) l1903X dated 27 Sep 1962. Therx :'u copy o!.' Opere.tirynal Immediate message, C-059, r~cei ved f rom the Air Attache, Tel Aviv, ls attached. 2. A preliminary analysis indicates that a meteor or decaying artificial space object was apparently consumed prior to ground imoac\.. This Detachment has no information or rumor of actual imoact of an o~.:C3ct at that time. Re~orts from the Air Attache, Cairo, \Jhich could help locate the nadir point, are presently being requested. Any further collection will be for-t~aMed. 3. ( UNCLASSIFIED) This correspondence i s classified it ra!'lects intelligence information, the unauthorized disclosure w~ich could adversely a~fect the national defense. FOR T~3 CO ER ( CO'TF) F'ax cy CCT-36467 Copy to TD- A2d ...... ~.HQ. sy;t"A IRA ..... tOCATfON FfRST OESER \'ED. FRQ~ 32." DEGRE~s. 24i ~1 HiUliS ;=-t:? ... .::..,, T ~-NOMTH 34 DGREES. 52 ~M I NU1ES~:30' SEC~NDS EAST .:~,A l RA. CONf;l NUED: Dlf t.VtMG~> . .. , '"ARCED. tSCENT TOWARD EAST AT OVER All' ANGt.E or: 18 Il'~GREES . . I fioM: v~R-Tt CAL. DESCET AP.P.EARED AS WHITE FALl:JtNG .STAR: rO---APP.Rox 35 .. ._.j J _ .. 'ABOVE.,.HORIZON, CHANGING To G~EE!4lSH BLUE t\No nEs.ctNtH.~-"';:-.. :.L . . r ~DIRECTt'OJf -~AS:: ROt;;~9g\DEGREES~fROM~ OBSERVE~ Dt,T8Aats:~:~>~-. I t~E :.rMROUGHOUT TIME A IRA ~ ~. ~,. . ... i Mt~l;Tiv-55 SE~ N EST TOGRAPHS Tt;R ~ELl A~D o_:A~LY SHOJ ~-E F tESC: ~ T~ -~ Y t C .._. .._ .. JT~S 0 E F C..,\tfAkOED BY l R. FRCII 'HI~ POINT-OFOBSERVATION DIRECTION AGAI WAS APPRO 190 DE~EE AX I UlW Of THE TOi -T TRA tL l\PPR X. 1-S REPORTED UOVE . f! l COfiF IRM A IRA'S OBSERVATJON THAT. UPPER H CF. .TRAIL lliSPEaSED...f. F,AtRLY RAPiDLY BECAUSE Of wi JD V~LOC ITY AND wiND SHEAR BUT. I,.;Oi1 .. . TRAJECTORY P.E~ At l'E D .F t L Y cor-:.ST r T l'H OtJGHOUT .. T I "IE TR AlL W~ .": : : VISIBLE. PRESS REPORTS 1~ ISRAEt REVAL THlT THIS PEHNOMENON SEI~ i;~ THOUSA