Feb 3 1973

From The Space Library

The U.S.S.R. launched Molniya I-23 communications satel­lite from Baykonur Cosmodrome into orbit with a 39 772-km (24 713.2­mi) apogee, 578-km (3592-mi) perigee, 717.6-min period, and 65.0° inclination. The satellite was to help provide a system of long-range telephone and telegraph radio communications in the U.S.S.R. and transmit Soviet central TV programs to the Orbita network. (Tass, FBIS-Sov, 2/6/73, LI; SBD, 2/6/73, 198; GSFC SSR, 2/28/73)

A suggestion that quasars, mysterious bright light sources and radio waves, might be part of galactic evolution was made by Dr. Jerome Kristian, Hale Observatory astronomer, in a telephone interview with Reuters News Agency. Using photos taken through a 508-cm (200-in) reflector, Dr. Kristian had located quasars at the heart of six galaxies by a complex series of calculations of brightness and darkness. "The ob­servations are consistent with the hypothesis that all quasars occur in the nucleii of giant galaxies." If quasars were part of the process of the development of galaxies, "then it could mean they are the start of the galaxies.” (Reuters, B Sun, 2/3/73, A3)

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