Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 50 — page 132: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION Patrick Moore, in which he discusses the possibility that Earth has a second Moon’. After reviewing the theoreti- cal basis for the old idea of a second Moon, Mr. Moore concludes that if there is an- other body out-there it must be too small to rank the title of satellite, and “can be nothing more than a meteor- sized rocky particle, irregular in form and with a gravita- tional pull too small to be de- tected even by the most re- fined methods.” This, of course, raises the question of when is a moon not a moon, and seems to be answerable only by personal prejudice. (5) None. “ Fanzines ”’). ANSWERS TO TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THIS ISSUE (See page 126) (1) Sir Hareld Spencer Jones (see “ Book Reviews’). (2) No (see “ Back to Go Forward ’’). (3) Some say yes, some say no (see “ Ways of Science’’). (4) C. M. Kornbluth (see “ Book Reviews ’’). ! But “Femizine” is by ladies only (see (6) The Manchester group (see page 117). Who isto say what is the minimum size for a satellite? It may be that a more scien- tific way of looking at it would be to use the term satellite for a body of any size at all which travels in a closed orbit round a planet. References: 1. Medawar, P. B., An Unsolved Problem in Biology, University College, London. 2. Horsburgh, H. J. N., Mind, LXIHII, 345 (1954). 3. Peters, D., ani Stoeckenius, W., Nature, 174, 224 (1954). 4. Booth, A. D., Discovery, XV, 280 (1954). 5. Kekwick, A. and Pawan, G. L. S., Lancet, ii, 167 (1954). 6. Moore, P., J. Brit. Interplanetary Soc., 13, 202 (1954). Ce 131 comiclooks.cormn