ECLIPSE OF SUN
[ SCIENTISTS PREPARED FORTY-ONE EXPEDITIONS MOSCOW, June 18. 'l’he world’s scientists are on tenterhooks lest a tiny wisp of cloud should shatter the unprecedented plans to observe the total eclipse of the sun on June 19, which 41 expeditions, 13 of which foreign, are observing from 17 different points in Russia from the Black Sea to the Pacific. British scientists arc operating from Siberia to Japan. Ten thousand sterling has been spent on special equipment. The American Harvard expedition has the world’s largest camera spectroscope. Soviet astronomers are sending up ’planes and balloons, and also hope to take close-up films from the stratosphere. Each group of scientists is concentrating on special observational problems, preparations for which were begun in 1934.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 145, 20 June 1936, Page 9
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122ECLIPSE OF SUN Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 145, 20 June 1936, Page 9
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